Burris v. Burgett’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1969
14 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 Plotkin v. Plotkin · Foster v. Lee · Jackson v. Jackson · Voorhees v. Sharp · Forbes v. Thompson
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.
““3087A. Section 27A. Descent from the Mother of Illegitimate Persons. — When the mother of an illegitimate-bom child dies intestate, her property, real and personal, if any there be, shall pass and belong in equal shares to such illegitimate-bom child or children, and to the lawful issue of such who may have died, by right of representation. ' “If there be no such issue, then said property shall go to the heirs .at law of such deceased mother, subject always to the payment .of her just debts and all lawful demands against her estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magee v. Chambers““3087A. Section 27A. Descent from Mother of Illegitimate Persons. — When the Mother of an illegitimate child or children dies [intestate], such illegitimate child or children, or the issue of such who may be dead, shall share in her real and personal estate, in the same manner as legitimate children or their issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Magee v. Chambers
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.