Botsford v. Burr’s Empirical Analysis
1817
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Newhall v. Le Breton (1886), Moore v. Crawford (1889)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The trust must have been coeval with the deeds, or it cannot exist at all. ’1”
2 later decisions 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.