Burns v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2004
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Maloof v. Gwinnett County · Blalock v. Blalock · Edwards v. Edwards · Hudson v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * as alimony and child support the sum of $650.00 per mnth for her support and maintenance and for the support, maintenance and education of the minor child. Upon the minor child's 18th birthday or his death, marriage or if he should otherwise become self-supporting, the aforesaid payments, shall be reduced by a sum of $250.00 per month.”
2 later decisions 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.