Commonwealth v. Burge’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Mills v. Commonwealth (1999), Beaty v. Commonwealth (2003)
103 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 Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Dixon · Grady v. Corbin · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Shillitani v. United States
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Civil contempt consists of the failure of one to do something under order of court, generally for the benefit of a party litigant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the court's purpose is to punish, the sanction is criminal contempt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A direct contempt is committed in the presence of the court and is an affront to the dignity of the court. It may be punished summarily by the court, and requires no fact-finding function, as all the elements of the offense are matters within the personal knowledge of the court. In re Terry, 128 U.S. 289 , 9 S.Ct. 77 , 32 L.Ed. 405 (1888). Indirect criminal contempt is committed outside the presence of the court and requires a hearing and the presentation of evidence to establish a violation of the court’s order. It may be punished only in proceedings that satisfy due process. Cooke v. United States, 267 U.S. 517 , 45 S.Ct. 390 , 69 L.Ed. 767 (1925).”
2 later decisions 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.