Ex Parte Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Gavin v. State (2003), 698 So. 2d 189 - Smith v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 70 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 Polizzi v. United States · 651 So. 2d 641 - Burton v. State · Berness v. State · Lee v. State · 632 So. 2d 503 - Harris 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In all cases in which the death penalty has been imposed, the Court of Criminal Appeals shall notice any plain error or defect in the proceedings under review, whether or not brought to the attention of the trial court, and take appropriate appellate action by reason thereof, whenever such error has or probably has adversely affected the substantial right of the appellant."”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waldrop v. State · Bryant v. State“robbery both as an element of the offense and as an aggravating circumstance. XV. Ferguson contends that, in sentencing him to death, the trial court improperly considered nonstatutory aggravating circumstances. Specifically, he maintains that the trial court, in addition to finding the existence of the statutory aggravating circumstance that the murders were committed during the course of a robbery in the first degree, see § 13A-5-49(4), Ala.Code 1975, also considered the following as nonstatutory aggravation: (1) that Ferguson had the opportunity to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court has not held ... that a defendant has the right to be present at all pre-trial proceedings without regard to whether the defendant's absence will prejudice the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.