Burks v. Bolerjack’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Board of Com'rs of Cass County v. Nevitt (1983), Jacobs v. City of Columbus ex rel. Police Department (1983)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Thompson v. Thompson · COMBS, AUDITOR v. Cook · Indiana State Highway Commission v. White · Richards v. Crown Point Community School Corp. · Delaware County v. Powell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment rendered with respect to or a settlement made by a governmental entity bars an action by the claimant against an employee whose conduct gave rise to the claim resulting in that judgment or settlement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The language of the statute is plain and unambiguous. If a governmental employee's conduct gives rise to a claim in tort against the employing governmental entity, any "judgment" rendered with respect to the governmental entity ... bars an action against an employee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he dismissal of Burks's suit against St. Joseph County was a 'judgment' both final and appealable; it left nothing for resolution between the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.