Burruss v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2000
9 federal appellate · 13 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 Skeen v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Claiborne v. Wilson · Rose v. Rose · Harris v. Harris · Bayly v. Curlette
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any executory interest which, by possibility, may not take effect until after lives in being and twenty-one years and ten months, is ipso facto and ab initio void.” [Burruss v. Baldwin, 199 Va. 883 , 887, 103 S.E.2d 249 , 252 (1958), quoting from Graves’ Notes on Real Property § 215 p. 256 (1912)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it be legally impossible that the event upon which the future limitation is to vest in interest be postponed beyond life or lives in being, and ten months and twenty-one years.”
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.