Burns v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1963
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Franciscan Hotel Co. v. Albuquerque Hotel Co. · Albuquerque Gas & Electric Co. v. Curtis · Otto-Johnson Mercantile Co. v. Garcia · Navajo Live Stock & Trading Co. v. Gallup State Bank · Milosevich v. Board of County Commissioners
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The policy behind statutes, rules and decisions permitting appeals only from final judgments or orders substantially disposing of the merits of the action is that litigation shall not proceed piecemeal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Floyd v. Towndrow
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.