Burks v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2011
13 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 Roviaro v. United States · Sorrentino v. United States · Portomene v. United States · United States v. Conforti
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(W)hen a police informant participates in or places himself in a position of observing a criminal transaction he ceases to be merely a source of information and becomes a witness.... there simply can be no valid principle under which the identity of a known witness may be concealed from adversary parties ...” (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.