Burt v. . Burt’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1934
11 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So far as appears both are men of good character, of competent business capacity, and of ample responsibility, to answer for their due administration of the estate committed to them, and both received from the testator that mark of high confidence evidenced by the trust reposed in them by the will; a confidence that a Court of equity will not override, by withdrawing the powers thus conferred, except upon clear grounds of danger to the interests of those affected by the administration, of which danger the proofs in this case do not show a shadow of pretense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Heyward
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.