Burke v. Canfield’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 877 · 1941
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2015
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Metropolitan Nat Bank of New York v. St Louis Dispatch Co · Burke v. Canfield · Earll v. Picken · Hawley v. Hawley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * good will must be dealt with legally in connection with the business of which it has been said to be parasitic.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““No executor or administrator shall sell any property of his decedent without an order of the probate court authorizing such sale; and any such sale made without a previous order authorizing it shall be void and pass no title to the purchaser. If any executor or administrator shall sell, pledge, or dispose of any property without such previous order, his letters may be revoked * * [§ 18-602]”
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.