Torrey v. Burney’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably Wear v. Wear (1916), Coghill v. Kennedy (1898)
46 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 Burney v. Torrey · Prince v. State · Eastis v. Montgomery · Knox v. Knox · Roberts v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court admitted testimony of the contents of a clipping from a newspaper, without producing the original or accounting for its loss. We are of opinion that therein the court erred. The theory, it seems, upon which the court admitted evidence of the contents of the clipping, was that it was merely collateral or incidental matter, and for the further reason, that the rule does not apply, when the writing ‘is not evidence of the fact to which it related.’ Ware v. Morgan, 67 Ala. 461 ; Brown v. State, 63 Ala. 97 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmore v. Inghram
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.