Burr v. Kulas’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2025
3 district · 17 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · United States v. Turkette · Hj Inc v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company · United States v. Phillips · Larson ex rel. Larson v. Miller
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When not otherwise specifically provided by law, an action against the state or its employees and officials acting within the scope of their employment or office must be commenced within three years after the claim for relief has accrued. For purposes of this section, the claim for relief is deemed to have accrued at the time it is discovered or might have been discovered in the exercise of reasonable diligence. This may not be construed as a waiver of immunity."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“type statute rather than a mirror of federal law. 1987 Senate Committee Minutes . In 1987, the legislature considered an entire repeal of the chapter, largely because of the ease in which suits could be brought against many legitimate businesses, such as banks and other financial institutions. 1987 Senate Committee Minutes . However, rather than repeal the entire statute, the legislature chose to amend the act. The legislature amended the act to require a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(2) Burr, 532 N.W.2d at 394 (emphasis added). The three-year limitation in Section 28-01-22.1 applies to a state employee acting within the scope of his or her employment. [¶11] A state employee cannot be held personally liable for acts committed within the scope of employment,”
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.