Burnside v. Twitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1948
2 federal appellate · 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 Despatch Line of Packets v. Bellamy Man. Co. · Walker v. Sherman · Hyde v. Noble · Wadleigh v. Janvrin · Plumer v. Plumer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The belting also of a mill runs from the large wheel connected with the motive power over a drum upon the main horizontal shaft, upon which are various of her drums, upon which are belts connected with the various distinct portions and parts of the machinery. Whether the belting could be removed whole without removing any of the machinery, or whether, as is the case ordinarily, it could not be disengaged from the drums and shafts altogether, without removing some of the permanent parts or attachments of the mill, or by disuniting the belts by removing the thongs by which the ends are «usually fastened together, the case does not show. But when a mill of any kind is constructed so as to make belts necessary, in order to run the mill, they would seem to be a part and sis essential a part as any otli§r of the mill. Some gristmills are constructed iu this way, with a belt attached to the main shaft and connected with each run of stones, another to the belt, another to the sinutmill, etc.; others are constructed with a large cogwheel, with other smaller cogwheels, that can be thrown into it or upon it, to carry each of the other several parts of the machinery. In one case the drums and belts perform the same oilice that the wheels and gearing do in the oilier. The belting is as necessary as the drums, and both are as necessary in one ease as the cogwheels are in the other, one of which might be removed, perhaps, with as little trouble as the other. Why. then, should the cogwheels”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giddings v. Freedbey
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.