State v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 566 So. 2d 1127 - State v. Shepherd · 326 So. 2d 815 - State v. Williams · Buras v. Fidelity Deposit Co. of Maryland · State v. Bernard · State v. Young
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a rule of statutory interpretation that the presence of a comma separating a modifying clause in a statute from the clause immediately preceding is an indication that the modifying clause was intended to modify all the preceding clauses and not just the last antecedent one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“general rule . . . that relative and qualifying clauses are to be applied to the words or phrase immediately preceding and are not to be construed as extending to or including others more remote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“State v. Burns, 29,632 (La.App. 2 Cir. 9/24/97), 699 So.2d 1179, 1181 (citing 82 C.J.S. Statutes, § 334, at 670, 671 (1953)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.