Bosley v. Burk’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2012
7 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 Graham v. Whitridge · Downin v. Sprecher · Tolson v. Bryan · 67 W. Va. 251 - Brown v. Brown · Billingslea v. Baldwin
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.
““Merger is the absorption of one estate in another, and takes place usually when a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person without any intermediate estate, whereby the less is immediately merged or absorbed in the greater. To constitute a merger, it is necessary that the two estates be in one and the same person, at one and the same time, and in one and the same right.” 10 R.C.L. 666. In 1 Tiffany’s Real Property (1st Ed.), 76, the learned author states: “It is a well-settled rule of law that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, it is said to be ‘merged,’ that is, sunk or drowned in the greater.” (Citing 2 Blackstone’s Comm. 177, and 4 Kent’s Comm. 99.)”
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.