Burrell v. . Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1952
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party suing for penalties against the same defendant may unite several such causes of action in the same complaint, and if they exceed $200 the Superior Court will have jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. . R. R.“The person suing for a penalty is the proper party plaintiff, and not the State, unless so expressed in the statute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. . R. R.
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.