Burke v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1953
9 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 Aspy v. Lewis · Moores v. Hare · Rumsey v. Durham
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of these rules, there being no manifest intent to the contrary, it must be presumed that the clause ‘after the death of my wife’, used in the third item of the will, relates to the beginning of the enjoyment of the remainder, and not to the vesting of that estate. . .”
1 later decision 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.