Burks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably United States v. Kendall (1985), Alvie James Hale v. Gary Gibson (2000)
9 federal appellate · 212 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 Miller v. California · Kent v. United States · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · State v. Billstrom · JTP 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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of other crimes or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Walker v. State · Coates v. State“[the evidence must go to a disputed issue and be necessary to support the State's burden of proof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of other crimes must be (a) probative of a disputed issue of the charged crime; (b) there must be a visible connection between the crimes; (c) the evidence must be necessary to support the State's burden of proof; (d) proof of the evidence must be clear and convincing; (e) the probative value of the evidence must outweigh its prejudicial effect; and (f) the trial court must instruct jurors on the limited use of the testimony at the time it is given and during final instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lowery v. State · Eizember 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.