Burns v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State Road Department v. Bender (1941), 59 So. 2d 647 - Indian Rocks Beach South Shore v. Ewell (1952)
30 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 Smith v. Horn · Carlin v. City of Chicago · City of Miami v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Phillips v. Lowenstein · Bozeman v. City of St. Petersburg
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of evidence to the contrary, an abutting lot owner is presumed to own the same to the center of the street.”
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.