Burr v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 583 · 1980
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Vega Molina (2005), United States v. Tracey (1982)
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · Greene v. McElroy · Alford v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A desire to cooperate may be formed beneath the conscious level, in a manner not apparent even to the witness, but such a subtle desire to assist the state nevertheless may cloud perception.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ide latitude in cross-examination is especially appropriate when the key witness is an accomplice of the accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have repeatedly held that when the Government's case turns on the credibility of a witness, then defense counsel ... must be given a maximum opportunity to test the credibility of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murdoch v. Castro
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.