Burton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990), 555 So. 2d 780 - Ex Parte Siebert (1989)
26 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 Batson v. Kentucky · United States v. Erwin · 460 So. 2d 320 - Warrick v. State · 429 So. 2d 1146 - Hopkins 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Further, the receipt into evidence of such exhibits lies within the sound discretion of the trial court. Hopkins v. State , 429 So.2d 1146 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983).' Burton v. State , 521 So.2d 91 , 92 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987)."”
3 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.