Burris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1970
14 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 McCaughey 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the definitions of said word are the following: `To furnish; to give; to administer medicine; to direct or cause it to be taken.' . . . `To supply, furnish, or provide with.' . . . As used in said section, the word `administer' was clearly intended to cover the whole ground named, making it an offense to give, furnish, supply, provide with, or cause to be given, furnished, supplied, or provided with, or taken, any such drug, medicine, or substance,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estep v. State
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.