Burvant v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1967 · most notably Jackson v. Cook (1938), Autio v. Miller (1932)
50 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 Buechner v. City of New Orleans · Sundmaker v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R. · Crisman v. Shreveport Belt Ry. Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question of contributory negligence in the case. Cases of persons going upon railroad tracks have no analogy. The boy’s attention was fixed upon the excitement ahead of him; as everybody else’s was. He was simply following others who had just preceded him, going in the same direction. If he had thought of the matter at all, he would have had the right to assume that an automobile or other fast-moving private vehicle would not run him down. “But if there was contributory negligence, still the defendant would be responsible, under the last-chance doctrine, for had he been looking (as he was legally bound to be doing) he would have seen the boy, and seen that he was unaware of the danger into which he was going. Possibly it would, even then, have been too late; but defendant should have been sufficiently attentive to have been in a position to make the trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Iglesias v. Campbell
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.