Burger v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1981
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Texas Seed & Floral Co. v. Chicago Set & Seed Co. · St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Gorman · Fairplay School Township v. O'Neal · Long v. Martin · Shealy v. Edwards
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recognize that there are two well-defined lines of decision concerning the rule of law applicable to the class of contracts known as executory where terms essential to the completion of same have been omitted, such as price to be paid for the services, date of performance, etc. However, we have, on careful investigation and consideration of the authorities cited, decided to follow that line of decisions in keeping with what we understand to be the most equitable and reasonable rule of construction as reflected by our observations made herein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammond v. Ringstad
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.