State v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2021
6 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 Holland v. United States · California ex rel. Brown v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · 16 Ill. 2d 175 - The People v. Rogers · State v. James · State v. Eagle
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be a defense to such a crime, one must be so under the influence of alcohol that at the time of the alleged offense he did not know what he was then doing, so that he was then and there incapable of forming the necessary intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dumas“The prosecution's burden of proof in any criminal case, whether the evidence be direct or cireumstantial, ... is that of beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gerber
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.