Burbank v. Slinkard’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1963
4 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 Town of Ligonier v. Ackerman
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.
““When . . . any person being surety in any undertaking whatever, has been or shall be compelled to pay any judgment or any part thereof, or shall make any payment which is applied upon such judgment by reason of such suretyship . . . the judgment shall not be discharged by such payment but shall remain in force for the use of the . . . person making such payment. . . . [Acts 1881 (Spec. Sess.), ch. 38, §740, p. 240]; §3-2505, Burns’ 1946 Replacement.””
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.