Burgin v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1968
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Kidd · Lauderdale v. Peace Baptist Church · Trevor v. . Wood · Dudley v. Colonial Lumber Co. · Myers v. Ellison
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.
““A real estate broker cannot act as agent for both the buyer and the seller in the same transaction. To state the principle a little differently, a servant cannot serve two masters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Earley
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.