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← 47 WVA 731 - State v. Burnett

State v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis

1900

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
May 1989
most recently cited

9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1989

9 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Cancemi v. . the People · State v. Miller · Jones v. State · Brown v. State · Berry v. State

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ Dying declarations, being a substitute, for sworn testimony, must be sucb narrative statements as would be admissible had the dying person been sworn as a witness. If they relate to facts to which the declarant could have thus testified, they are admissible. Mere declarations of opinion, which would not be received if the declarant were a witness, aré inadmissible. ’ ’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.