Burgess v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.2d 91 · 1962
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2010
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Di Bella v. United States · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · In Re Peterson · Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co. · Bartley Pen Co. v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the coming in of the Master's Report, upon motion of any of the parties herein, or of its own motion, in those instances in which jury trials had been demanded, if the Court deems it appropriate, to take further testimony before a jury or juries and to submit to it or them such issue or issues as may then seem to the Court to be proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgess v. Williams“When a public officer is a party to an action in his official capacity and during its pendency dies, resigns, or otherwise ceases to hold office, the action does not abate and his successor is automatically substituted as a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgess v. Williams“but whether there is to be an accounting or”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burgess v. Williams
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.