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← 56 Ala. App. 414 - Burress v. State

56 Ala. App. 414 - Burress v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
January 1986
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Coppedge v. United States · Draper v. Washington · Gilliam v. United States · Champion v. State · 56 Ala. App. 272 - Yelton 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"[W]e would be speculating as to whether or not punishment under the murder conviction would preclude punishment under the robbery conviction. Accordingly, we consider that the New York practice of concurrent sentences is the only pragmatic solution."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the robbery and murder were legally discrete crimes which came from a single transaction, i.e., taking money by violence.”
    1 later decision 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.