Burnham v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1960
14 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 Aeschlimann v. . Presbyterian Hospital · Richardson v. Penny · Manning v. . Gould · First National Bank v. Rogers · Wallace v. Holly
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule in an action upon a contract, such as an appeal bond, whatever, either at law, or by the rules of equity to which courts of law can give effect, operates to discharge or extinguish the claim upon the contract, or bond, is a defense thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsey v. Townsend““The obligor in a bond cannot contradict the recital of a particular fact recited in the instrument, such as the existence of a judgment. * ® *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Edwards
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.