Burdine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Joyner v. State (1997), Harrison v. State (1995)
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Rideout v. United States · Lawson v. Credithrift of America · Loyd 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No person shall be held on recognizance or otherwise to answer a criminal charge for a period in aggregate embracing more than one year from the date the criminal charge against such defendant is filed, or from the date of his arrest on such charge, whichever is later; except where a continuance was had on his motion, or the delay was caused by his act, or where there was not sufficient time to try him during such period because of congestion of the court calender...."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gamblin v. State · State v. Hurst“[to be admissible, such evidence must do more than cast suspicion or raise a conjectural inference that a third person committed the crime; it must directly connect the third party to the crime charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. State · Thompson v. State“[The dismissal and refiling of the same charge does not toll the one-year period within which a defendant must be brought to trial....”
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.