Burrell v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1960 · most notably Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Pullen (1925), National Life & Acc. Ins. Co. v. Hanna (1946)
2 federal appellate · 23 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This becomes obvious when it is reflected that, had he completed his purchase and obtained plaintiff's title, his possession would have been a rightful one held in his own right, and there could have been no holding adverse to his by other members of the family.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Witness my hand this the 3d day of August, A.D. 1899.”
1 later decision 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.