Burton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2008
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 Green v. State · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Martin · Johnson v. State · Hunter v. State · 424 So. 2d 665 - Coburn 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.
“"The Court being aware of that particular case Mr. Wilson [appellant's attorney] is talking about, it was a misidentification not by the witness, it was an improper name given the grand jury by somebody other than the prosecuting witness [Crawford]. He gave the name as he knew it, which was a nickname, and he did not identify him by sight; therefore, I deny — I overrule the objection." (R. 58-59). "The scope of cross-examination in a criminal proceeding is within the discretion of the trial court, and it is not reviewable except for the trial judge's prejudicial abuse of discretion. The right to a thorough and sifting cross-examination of a witness does not extend to matters that are collateral or immaterial and the trial judge is within his discretion in limiting questions which are of that nature."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence is subject to no reasonable construction that the defendant committed an assault in the first degree upon the alleged victim but that he did so without any intent to steal.”
1 later decision 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.