Burrus v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1952
10 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 Godden v. Kimmell · M'Crea v. Purmort · Benne v. Schnecko · Butler v. Lawson · Blair v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a surety who has paid the debt does not act before his claim is barred at law by the Statute of Limitations, manifesting his intention to put himself in the. place of the original creditor, and thereby .subrogating himself to the creditor’s rights, equity will not subrogate him to those rights.’ [1 Brandt on Suretyship (3 Ed.),”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burrus v. Cook“"* * * It is to be holden, as a principle, that all who are bound for a debt for others, or with others, by whom they ought to be discharged either for the whole or a part, have a right, in paying such debt, to require the cession of the actions of the creditor against the other debtors, who are liable for it * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leiter v. Carpenter
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.