Robertson v. Burrell’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1976
14 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 William Gardner v. John a Collins et al. · Richardson v. Eastman · Armington v. Armington · Clark v. Sprague · Henson v. Ott
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A kinsman of the whole blood is he that is derived, not only from the same ancestor, but from the same couple of ancestors. For, as every man's own blood is compounded of the bloods of his respective ancestors, he only is properly of the whole or entire blood with another, who hath (so far as the distance of degrees will permit) all the same ingredients in the composition of his blood that the other had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Belshaw““Kindred of the half-blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood; but if the estate shall have come to the intestate by gift, devise, or descent from any ancestor, those only who are of the blood of such aucestor shall inherit: Provided, That on failure of such kindred, other kindred of the half-blood shall inherit as if they were of .the whole blood.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pond v. Irwin
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.