Burge v. Frey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2007
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Scovill v. Thayer · Newton v. Hornblower, Inc. · 30 Del. Ch. 538 - Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]reincorporation services may be valid consideration for the issuance of common stock if the underlying agreement is adopted by the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“including the words and actions of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.