Burford v. Upton’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2001
10 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 L. R. Junction Ry. v. Woodruff · Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Partain · Patterson Orchard Co. v. Southwest Arkansas Utilities Corp. · Gurdon & Fort Smith Railroad v. Vaught · Yonts v. Public Service Co. of Arkansas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The market value is the value to which the property can best be put, or value for the best use of the property, and not necessarily the use to which the property is presently being put. See Little Rock & Ft. Smith Railway Co. v. McGehee, 41 Ark. 202 ; Orgel, Valuation Under Eminent Domain, Sec. 30; Yonts v. Public Service Company of Ark., 179 Ark. 695 , 17 S. W. 2d 886 .””
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.