Burns v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Brown v. Brown (2009), Gemmell v. Anthony (2019)
37 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 Hartt v. Munobe · 136 Ohio App. 3d 211 - Harkai v. Scherba Industries, Inc. · Mortgage Electronic Registrations Systems v. Mullins · Mortgage Elec. Reg. v. Mullins, Unpublished Decision (5-11-2005)
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.
“[T]he trial court must *** enter its own independent judgment disposing of the matters at issue between the parties, such that the parties need not resort to any other document to ascertain the extent to which their rights and obligations have been determined. In other words, the judgment entry must be worded in such a manner that the parties can readily determine what is necessary to comply with the order of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he primary function of a final order or judgment is the termination of a case or controversy that the parties have submitted to the trial court for resolution. One fundamental principle in the interpretation of judgments is that, to terminate the matter, the order must contain a statement of the relief that is being afforded the parties. Moreover, a `judgment' must be distinguished from a `decision.' * * * A decision announces what the judgment will be. The judgment entry unequivocally orders the relief. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN GRANTING A MODIFICATION OF CUSTODY."”
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.