Ex Parte Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Black (1940), Ex Parte Perry County Board of Education (1965)
111 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 Faulk & Co. v. Hobbie Grocery Co. · State ex rel. Merriam v. Ross · State ex rel. Sullivan v. Reynolds · Ex parte Roundtree · Wilkinson v. Roper
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . 'All the authorities recognize the importance of carefully preserving the boundary line between courts of concurrent jurisdiction, in order to prevent conflicts, and to preserve in harmony their relations to each other.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Vol. 50, § 22, p. 667, Corpus Juris, the author states the rule with reference to issuance of writs of prohibition, to preserve the jurisdiction of the court which first takes cognizance of a cause, as follows: `Prohibition will lie to restrain one court from assuming jurisdiction of a matter over which another, having concurrent jurisdiction, has assumed and is exercising jurisdiction.' This statement of the author of the text seems to be abundantly supported by the authorities. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To this second bill of complaint the wife filed answer and cross bill, averring that she was without property or means of support, denying that she had ever been guilty of the misconduct charged, and praying for alimony, temporary and permanent, and counsel fees. She also prayed for the custody of her two children. “In neither of her two cross bills did the respondent wife pray for divorce, though she, in each cross bill, charged her husband with many acts of adultery.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Davis
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.