Bourland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Chemetron Corporation v. Business Funds, Inc. (1982), 113 Ill. App. 3d 580 - Frahm v. Urkovich (1983)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 20 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 International Bankers Life Insurance Co. v. Holloway · Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp. · State v. Standard Oil Co. · Dale v. Thomas H. Temple Co. · Hyden's Administrator v. Stearns Coal & Lumber Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) ‘Goods’ means tangible chattels or real property purchased or leased for use. “(2) ‘Services’ means work, labor, or service purchased or leased for use, for other than commercial or business use, including services furnished in connection with the sale or repair of goods. “(4) ‘Consumer’ means an individual, partnership, or corporation who seeks or acquires by purchase or lease, any goods or services. “(6) ‘Merchant’ means a party to a consumer transaction other than a consumer.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ratcliff v. Trenholm“Civil conspiracy, generally defined as a combination of two or more persons to accomplish an unlawful purpose, or to accomplish a lawful purpose by unlawful means, might be called a derivative tort.... That is, a defendant’s liability for conspiracy depends on participation in some underlying tort for which the plaintiff seeks to hold at least one of the named defendants liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bradt v. Sebek““(4) ‘Consumer’ means an individual, partnership, or corporation who seeks or acquires by purchase or lease, any goods or services. “(5) ‘Merchant’ means a party to a consumer transaction other than a consumer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trial v. McCoy
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.