Burman v. Lenkin Const. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 827 · 1945
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Leon F. Urbain and Loxit Systems, Inc. v. Knapp Brothers Manufacturing Company, Al Levinson, Charles Levinson, and Robert Levinson (1954), Dann v. Studebaker-Packard Corp. (1961)
35 federal appellate ·
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the record considered as a whole does not present a genuine issue as to any material fact . . .”
5 later decisions 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.