Burton v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
April 2003
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Lee · Cobb v. Harrington · Simmons v. Arnim · James v. Drye · Brazos River Authority v. City of Graham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the primary, ultimate, and dominant purpose of plaintiff's suit was to obtain a declaratory judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burton v. Rogers
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.