Burnson v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1987
13 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 State v. City Council of Camden · State v. Mayor of Atlantic City · Civil Service Commission v. Rife
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of prosecuting an information in the nature of a quo warranto is to have the possessor of the office adjudged guilty of usurpation and ousted.... Where the incumbent of an office was ineligible at the time of his appointment, the proper method to oust him is by quo warranto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Even when a court is convinced that the Legislature really meant and intended something not expressed by the phraseology of the act, it will not deem itself authorized to depart from the plain meaning of language which is free from ambiguity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Legislature is deemed to mean what was plainly expressed. An unexpressed legislative intention is ineffective and unenforceable.”
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.