Commonwealth v. Burkett’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1999
2 district · 12 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 Bruton v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Commonwealth v. Jones · Rhay v. White
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As permitted by that section both indictments included an allegation that the defendant ‘without lawful authority, did forcibly . . . confine the victim, with the intent to cause him to be secretly confined against his will.’ On all the relevant evidence both the offenses charged were complete at least as soon as the defendant climbed into the back of the [victim’s] car, pointed his gun at [his] head with an order to drive, and the car began to move, the fact that the car moved only a few hundred feet because a police officer shot out one of the tires is beside the point.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State
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.