Burr v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Lockhart v. McCree (1986), 675 So. 2d 567 - Rose v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Lockett v. Ohio · Holland v. United States · Addington v. Texas
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he "reasonable doubt" foundation of the adversary method attains neither certainty on the part of the factfinders nor infallibility, and accommodations to that failing are well established in our society. See also Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 317-318 , 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2788 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979) (reversal of jury verdict supported by insufficient evidence). In the capital sentencing context, the consideration of possible innocence as a mitigating factor is just such an essential accommodation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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