Burton v. Larkin’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Cornwell v. Jespersen (1985), Howsmon v. Trenton Water Co. (1893)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 National Bank v. Grand Lodge · Simson v. . Brown · Ames v. Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad · Ferris v. Carson Water Co. · Turk v. . Ridge
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is not every promise made by one to another, from the performance of which a benefit may inure to a third, which gives a right of action to such third person, he being neither privy to the contract nor to the consideration. The contract must be made for his benefit, as its object, and he must be the party intended to be benefited.'"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The name of the person to be benefited by the contract need not be given if he is otherwise sufficiently described or designated. Indeed, he may be one of a class of persons, if the class is sufficiently described or designated.” Burton v. Larkin, 36 Kan. 246 ( 13 Pac. 398 , 59 Am. Rep. 541 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.