Burnap v. Wight’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1924
17 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 Tucker v. Randall · Grannis v. Clark · Steel v. President of Western Inland Lock Navigation
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They may be stricken out on motion; or the court will not allow any evidence to be given under them on the trial. It is well settled that where unnecessary allegations are made in a declaration, which are foreign and irrelevant to the cause, they will be rejected as surplusage, and need not be proved; nor will they vitiate even on special demurrer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LaMonte v. Kent
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.