Burrows v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Clark v. Arizona (2006), Duvall v. Reynolds (1998)
11 federal appellate · 36 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Sandstrom v. Montana · Jurek v. Texas
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“authorized to consider imposing a sentence of death”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Duvall v. Reynolds · Parks v. Brown“the conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a human being....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parks v. Brown
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.