Burr v. Everhart’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2004
16 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 Tysinger v. Coble Dairy Products · Mitchell v. . Melts · Petty v. Cranston Print Works Company · Mintz v. Town of Murphy · Harward v. General Motors Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant has failed to exercise proper care in the performance of a duty owed to the plaintiff; (2) that the negligent breach of that duty was the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury; (3) that a person of ordinary prudence should have foreseen such result was probable under the conditions as they existed. (Citations omitted.)”
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.