Burford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Dorman v. State (1981), Adams v. State (2011)
37 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 Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · United States v. Tucker · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Loper v. Beto
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain Error. Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. State · Thomas v. State“[i]n order for this court to notice plain error, the alleged error must affect substantive rights and be `obviously prejudicial.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rights of the accused are not prejudiced and the requirements of plain error have not been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams 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.