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Burger v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis

785 F.2d 890 · 1986

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
April 1988
most recently cited

11 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · Bailey v. Butcher · Tucker v. Kemp

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “was just sorta going along, sorta doing sorta like Stevens was telling him to do”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “virtually identical to the one held unconstitutional in Franklin,”
    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.