Burley v. Elgin, J. & E. Ry. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 488 · 1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1990
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Lemos v. Madden · Campana Corp. v. Harrison · Western Petroleum Co. v. Tidal Gasoline 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The procedure for summary judgment was intended to expedite the settlement of litigation where it affirmatively appears upon the record that in the last analysis there is only a question of law as to whether the party should have judgment in accordance with the motion for summary judgment. If there was any question of fact presented on the record in the proceedings for summary judgment, the motion could not be sustained."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meadows v. Edwards
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.