Burns v. Bines’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Ross v. Hoffman (1977), Davis v. Davis (1977)
4 district · 62 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 Atlantic Coast Line Co v. State of Florida State of Florida · British Queen Mining Co. v. Baker Silver Mining Co. · Northwestern Fuel Co. v. Brock · The Bank of the United States v. The Bank of Washington · Erwin v. Lowry
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This case, which was improperly brought at law, could have been properly brought in equity in the same court before the same judge. If found meritorious, it could have been removed from law to equity. ... We should, therefore, pass upon the merits as if the case had been so brought or removed and should not require a new suit in equity. [Citation omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Grandparents have no `right' to custody; in these domestic tragedies they unfortunately have only burdens and responsibilities which they assume on account of the parents' misconduct or misfortune.”
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.