Burnet v. Desmornes y Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
226 U.S. 145 · 1912
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, Inc. (1923), Pope v. United States (1944)
32 federal appellate · 9 district · 20 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 Fauntleroy v. Lum · Sawyer v. City of Boston
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““■When a court has general jurisdiction to try the question whether the alleged right exists, the rules that determine the existence of the right ordinarily govern the duty only of the court, not its power. Its judgment that the right is established cannot he impeached collaterally by proof that the judgment was wrong.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There being no question of the power of the Supreme Court, we should be slow to control its discretion on this point.””
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.