Burns v. Clusen’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 931 · 1986
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably McCandless v. Vaughn (1999), United States v. Zapata (1989)
36 federal appellate · 23 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Townsend v. Sain · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Ohio v. Roberts · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the duration and the severity of the illness”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the lengths to which the prosecution must go to produce a witness . . . is a question of reasonableness.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“is whether absent the constitutionally-forbidden evidence, honest and fair-minded jurors might very well have brought in not-guilty verdicts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.