Burns v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1968
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lovin v. Town of Hamlet
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The drowning of the child upon stepping into the pond or lake stirs the sympathetic concern of all; but, upon the evidence offered, it does not appear that this tragedy can be attributed to actionable negligence on the part of the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLean v. Ward
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.