Allyn v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1962
6 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 Shields v. State · Indiana Railway Co. v. Maurer · Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. Spilker · Johnson v. Gebhauer · Citizens Street Railroad v. Hamer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract proved gave the proposed buyer sixty days within which to make a decision to keep or reject the property, and a notice by him to the seller of such decision within that time was sufficient. The buyer was compelled to act within that time if he declined to take it. The time being fixed, it was not a question of reasonable time,”
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.