Burton v. Mee’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1991
22 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 Jackson v. Carroll · Eagle Loan & Inv. Co. v. Turner · Millard v. Nelson · Booth v. First State Bank of Maramec · Owens v. Culbertson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On a motion to confirm sale of real estate made under execution, the court should confine itself to the regularity of the proceeding on the sale and is not required to go behind the execution and look into the regularity of the judgment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thrush v. Winslow · Funk v. Payne““The general presumption is that public officers perform their official duty and that their official acts are regular.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.