Courtright v. Burnes’s Empirical Analysis
13 F. 317 · 1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1991
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Wylie v. Coxe · The Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company v. Henry Debolt Treasurer of Hamilton County · Post v. Pearsall · Rooney v. . Second Avenue Railroad Company · Sedgwick v. . Stanton
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.
““The tendency in the courts of this country is stronger in the direction of relaxing the common-law doctrine concerning champerty and maintenance so as to permit greater liberty of contracting between attorney and client than was formerly allowed, and this for the reason that the peculiar condition of society which gave rise to Ihe doctrine has In a great measure passed away.””
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.