Burns v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 61 Cal. 2d 311 - Coast Bank v. Minderhout (1964), 13 Cal. 2d 158 - Long Beach Drug Co. v. United Drug Co. (1939)
62 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 MacLeod v. Moran · 102 Cal. App. 71 - Richman v. Bank of Perris · 94 Cal. App. 223 - Iknoian v. Winter · The Wood Estate Co. v. Chanslor · Hollywood Lumber Co. v. Love
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the respondent argues that the clause requiring an acceptance by the trustee is plain and calls for no construction, he overlooks the fact that that clause conflicts with other portions of the instrument and that the meaning of the entire instrument is involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The general rule is that where two clauses of a contract cannot be reconciled the first shall be received and the latter rejected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.