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Burns v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1873

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
4
states following
December 1968
most recently cited

29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably B'ham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. Barrett (1912), Roberts v. State (1880)

29 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 People v. Scoggins · Carroll v. State · Dupree v. State · Eskridge v. State · Powell 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““This rule has been announced by this court so often, and it is so clearly expressed in the-text-books, that we are not ready to presume any court has infringed it.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. ““It is impossible to define accurately the declarations which should be treated as parts of the res gastíe.” /”
    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.