State v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2016
19 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 State v. Trimble · State v. Ellis · State v. Burke · State v. Douglas · State v. Woodfin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[6] The evidence in this case showed a course of sexual abuse of the victim by defendant continuing over a period of months_ L_B_testified that during the times she was in the sole custody of her father he inserted his finger in her vagina more than five times, put his penis in her mouth more than three or four times and made her touch his penis with her hand more than three or four times. In light of this evidence, together with the instruction that each count related to a different offense, defendant’s contention that the jury could have imposed multiple punishments for a single crime is specious. Contentions similar to that made by defendant here have been rejected in light of MAI-Cr2d 2.70 and reference in the verdict directors to different counts. See State v. Douglas, 720 S.W.2d 390, 395 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Fletcher, 709 S.W.2d 924, 926 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Mudd, 703 S.W.2d 63, 66 (Mo.App.1985); State v. Trimble, 654 S.W.2d 245, 259 (Mo.App.1983). The jury clearly understood that defendant was charged with different offenses in distinct counts.” (Our emphasis.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rudd““... Because time is not essential to the crime of sodomy, and in recognition of the impossibility of ascertaining specific dates in cases of sexual abuse of children, especially where there is a continuous series of abusive acts, the courts have consistently rejected contentions identical to that made by defendant herein absent an affirmative showing of prejudice. See State v. Woods, 723 S.W.2d 488 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Douglas, 720 S.W.2d 390 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Ellis, 710 S.W.2d 378 (Mo.App.1986); State v. Allen, 622 S.W.2d 275 (Mo.App.1981).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rudd“[t]he evidence ... showed a course of sexual abuse of the victim by defendant continuing over a period of months” and that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Paulson
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.