State v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1989
9 state decisions
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.
““ 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 majoritye.g. State v. Graham
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.