Burch v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1996
3 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" Witnesseth, That and for the sum of Ten Dollars and other good and valuable considerations, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the party of the first part [the son] does hereby assign and transfer for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators unto party of the second part [the father], his heirs and assigns an undivided one-third (1/3) interest in the business known as * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We regard Exhibit `A' as a valid contract. The recital of a consideration and acknowledgment of receipt thereof must stand in the absence of contrary evidence."”
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.