Burruss v. Suddith’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2016
11 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 Massie v. Firmstone · Virginia & Southwestern Railway Co. v. Bailey · Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Co. v. McCormick · Buford v. Edwards · Waller v. Waller
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations of negligence contained in the notice must be held to include any failure to use due care to warn the plaintiff at any time after defendants’ agents knew that the position he occupied was one of peril of which he was unaware.”
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.