State v. Burruell’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Arizona v. Washington (1978), State v. King (1994)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Downum v. United States · State v. Little · State v. Holden · State of Arizona v. Guerrero · Turley v. State of Arizona
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“advise the jury of the facts relied upon and of the questions and issues involved, which the jury will have to determine, and to give them a general picture of the facts and the situations, so that they will be able to understand the evidence. Counsel should outline generally what he intends to prove, and should be allowed considerable latitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(the trial) “was stopped by the court’s ruling of mistrial, which was not based upon proper ‘legal reason’ or sufficient ‘exceptional circumstances.’ The second trial, on April 13, 1964, had the legal effect of placing defendant in double jeopardy.””
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.