Burt v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2001
11 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not the manner in which courts exercise judicial functions, is not a proper subject, or legitimate use of legislative authority, inasmuch as the powers of the government of this State are divided by the constitution into distinct departments, each of which is confided to a separate magistracy: the legislative powers to the general assembly, the judicial powers to the judiciary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“until after the ratification of peace between the United States and the Confederate States.”
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.