Fleming v. . Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently May 1965 · most notably 8 E.H. Smith 299 - Heller v. . Cohen (1897), Greenblatt v. . Hermann (1894)
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Shriver v. . Shriver · Jackson ex dem. Swartwout v. Johnson · Chrystie v. . Phyfe · Jackson ex dem. Hardenbergh v. Schoonmaker
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would especially be unjust to compel a purchaser to take a title, the validity of which depended upon a question of fact, where the facts presented upon the application might be changed on a new inquiry, or are open to opposing inferences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruess v. Ewen
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.