Burr v. . Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1933 · most notably Higgins v. Lansingh (1895), Gillett v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. (1907)
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issuing of the original certificates is in no. sense a transfer of stock. The interest of the party to whom they are issued is the same before as after such issue. The certificate is simply a written acknowledgment by the company of the interest of the subscriber in its property and franchises.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehead v. Gormley
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.