Burke v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1980
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 Wood v. Wagner Electric Corporation · In Re Claim of Dependents of Seabaugh v. Garver Lumber Manufacturing Co. · Technical Radio Laboratory v. Federal Radio Commission · State Ex Rel. Henderson v. Cook · Agee v. Cate
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"But the doctrine of moot case is not inexorably applicable merely because of the court's inability to act upon an expired license. The force of other considerations, especially in present day administrative procedure, may be so great as to compel an adjudication upon the merits, despite the ineffectiveness of the judgment with respect to the immediate controversy."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hohmann
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.