Burnes v. Burnes’s Empirical Analysis
132 F. 485 · 1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1953
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Wood v. Carpenter · Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · National Bank v. Matthews · Scovill v. Thayer · Union Pac Ry Co v. Chicago R I P Ry Co Union Pac 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compromises, where doubts with respect to individual rights, especially among members of the same family, have arisen, apd where all the parties, instead of ascertaining and enforcing their mutual rights and obligations, which are yet undetermined and uncertain, intentionally put an end to all controversy by a voluntary transaction in the way of a compromise, are highly favored by courts of equity. They will not be disturbed for any ordinary mistake either of law or of fact, in the absence of conduct otherwise inequitable, since their very object is to settle all such possible errors without a judicial controversy.” Pomeroy’s Equity Jurisprudence, vol. 2 (3d Ed.) § 850.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodno v. Hotchkiss
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.