Burns v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 23 Cal. 2d 719 - Maguire v. Hibernia Savings & Loan Society (1944), 18 Cal. 4th 558 - People v. Guiuan (1998)
67 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 Lezinsky v. Mason Malt Whiskey Distilling Co. · Hecht v. Slaney · Walsh v. Hunt · Schultz v. McLean · Hibernia Sav. and Loan Soc. v. Farnham
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is true an appellant should state in his opening brief the points upon which he relies and that matters first raised in a reply brief may be disregarded, this court `is undoubtedly at liberty to decide a case upon any points that its proper disposition may seem to require, whether taken by counsel or not.'”
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.