State v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he State's acceptance in Holt County of defendant's plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect for the offense alleged to have been committed on June 17, 1974, did not establish that defendant was suffering from mental disease or defect on that date. Under the statute [§ 552.030(2)], such acceptance simply mandated that the court order the defendant committed to the Director of the Division of Mental Diseases for further proceedings. It did not constitute an adjudication of defendant's mental condition on June 17, 1974, as characterized by appellant; and it had no bearing on his mental condition on July 25, 1974, when he committed rape in Buchanan County.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burton v. State

2. “In order for an appellant to secure a new trial on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, the evidence must have come to his knowledge since the trial; he must not be guilty of a lack of diligence in discovering it; it must be material and probably produce a different result on a new trial; it must not be merely cumulative; and its object must not be to impeach the character or credit of a witness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Holt

3. “If the prosecuting attorney . . . be interested . . . in any case where such employment is inconsistent with the duties of his office, . . . the court having criminal jurisdiction may appoint some other attorney to prosecute or defend the cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Holt