Burrows v. Peirce’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2001
8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If at the time of the eviction the thing sold has risen in value even without the buyer having contributed thereto, the seller is bound to pay him the amount of said augmentation of value above the price of the sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The two decisions being directly in conflict, we are compelled to decide, in the present case, which is the true interpretation of article 2482 of the New Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“2. That of the fruits or revenues, when he is obliged to return them to the owner who evicts him.”
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.