Burton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
38 U.S. 464 · 1839
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably United States v. Bess (1958), Michigan v. United States (1943)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Mutual Assurance Society v. Stanard · Dawson v. Moons
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is of the very nature and essence of a lien, that no matter into whose hands the property goes, it passes cum onere”
6 later decisions 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.