Burnes v. Burnes’s Empirical Analysis
137 F. 781 · 1905
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1989 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), Kinney-Coastal Oil Co. v. Kieffer (1928)
26 federal appellate · 5 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 Grymes v. Sanders · Colton v. Colton · John Smith v. Robert Bell · McLean v. Clapp · New England Trust Co. v. Abbott
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law gives one who is induced by fraud to make a contract the option to rescind it. But it imposes upon him the duty to exercise that option with all convenient speed after his discovery of the fraud. He may not speculate upon it. He may not lie in wait until time and change make his interest plain, and then make his choice. Silence, delay, acquiescence, or the retention of the fruits of the agreement for any considerable length of time after the discovery of the fraud, constitutes a complete and irrevocable ratification of the transaction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““For obvious reasons of public policy, compromises of conflicting claims by family settlements are encouraged by tbe courts, and they inay not be avoided or disregarded for mere inadequacy of consideration, or except upon clear and convincing proof of grave fraud or mistake”—citing numerous authorities to sustain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Unkle v. Wills““While the powers of a corporation are limited to those expressly granted and those fairly incidental thereto, they include the latter as completely as the former, and they always include the indispensable and the suitable means to exercise the granted powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.