Burnett v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1994
7 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 Houck v. Little River Drainage District · Wilton v. County St. Johns · Burnett El Al. v. Green · Pinellas Park Drainage District v. Kessler · Snyder v. Allen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the Constitution forbidding a statute to authorize a finding by the circuit court that the establishment of a drainage district, ‘will be for the advantage of the owners of the real property therein,’ or that the district ‘would be in the interest of the public health, convenience or welfare.’ Advantage or benefit to the owners of real estate in the area afford the considerations and reasons for establishing drainage districts under the authority of statutes,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appropriate notice and opportunity to be heard must be given to afford due process of law.”
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.