Burton v. Greig’s Empirical Analysis
265 F. 418 · 1920
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1971
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 The Osceola
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘Even after the pipe blew out,' an examination of it has failed to show any defect in the pipe, much less one which could have been discovered by the most careful examination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Greig
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.