Burdette v. Burdette’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Morgan v. High Penn Oil Co. (1953), Lucero v. Trosch (1997)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Killian v. State · Wakefield v. Wakefield
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The depositions of the witnesses were, more or less, in stereotype form, stating, not the facts and circumstances attending the commission of violence on the complainant, but conclusions such as, 'that such violence was attended with danger to my life and health and from his conduct there was reasonable apprehension of such violence if I continued to live with him.’ This was a mere conclusion which it was the province of the court to draw and was wholly insufficient to support the allegations of the bill. Wakefield v. Wakefield, 217 Ala. 517 , 116 So. 685 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnett v. Barnett
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.