Burns v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2011
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the rule of stare decisis is of any value, it should be adhered to, when the precise question is again presented in the same court, between the same parties, and on the same state of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brinkman v. Rick
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.