Burris v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 1977 · most notably 53 Cal. 2d 195 - Leeper v. Beltrami (1959), 5 Cal. 2d 35 - Texas Co. v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (1935)
69 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 In re the Estate of Burton · Boyd v. Blankman · Burris v. Adams · Irwin v. Scriber · Bush v. Lindsey
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same presumption must now attach to decrees in probate proceedings upon collateral attack as to judgments in cases at common law or in equity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Bell
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.