Weeks v. Burnor’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Blackwell (1976), Houghton v. Leinwohl (1977)
104 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 Dashnow v. Myers · Grow v. Wolcott · Belock v. State Mutual Fire Insurance · Russell v. Pilger · Williamson v. Clark
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on grounds or for reasons clearly untenable or to an extent clearly unreasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Vermont law requires a judge, who is asked to grant a new trial, to weigh the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict. This is because it is the protected duty of the jury to render a verdict, and a judge may not disturb that verdict unless it is clearly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At the least, when a verdict in favor of a defendant not having the burden of proof is set aside, there must be evidence in the case sufficient to satisfy the burden of proof, if viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKenna v. May
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.