People v. Burden’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Batson (1992), 9 Cal. 4th 189 - People v. Heitzman (1994)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 People v. Redmond · 1 Cal. 3d 379 - People v. Mosher · People v. Washington · 69 Cal. 2d 122 - People v. Bassett · 2 Cal. 3d 205 - People v. Robles
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it has never been doubted that if death is the directed consequence of the malicious omission of the performance of a duty (as of a mother to nourish her infant child) this is a case of murder. If the omission was not malicious and arose from negligence only, it is a case of manslaughter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For example, if from an infant of tender years, the person under obligation to provide for it wilfully withholds needful food . . . thereof the child dies, he commits murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nicholson“[t]he omission of a duty is ... the equivalent of an act and when death results, the standard for determination of the degree of homicide is identical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tucker
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.