Burney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 1986
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 Crawford v. Kirksey · State v. Murphy · Du Bois 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It will be seen that this remark — all that the witness Coskrey is claimed to have heard — does not mention money, nor expressly refer to it. That may have been her meaning, and if so, it is not only not improbable, but very likely, that his remark, not heard by the witness, referred to the same subject, and that his request was that she should bring him money. If so, this would `tend to connect defendant with the commission of the offense.' But, to have this effect, there was an inference to be drawn, and only the jury could draw that inference. The charge under discussion was a charge on the effect of the evidence; and such charge should never be given, when a material inquiry of fact rests in inference. . . ." 87 Ala. at 82 , 6 So. 391 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this is corroborative evidence, tending to connect defendant with the commission of the offense, if committed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.