Burress v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1957
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question upon which the decision of this case must turn is whether the contract under consideration is capable of an intelligent construction, and its application to its subject-matter is not left in doubt from its own language, without any resort to extraneous evidence. If it was, then its construction devolved upon the court, as a matter of law, and it was improper to shift the responsibility on a jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Rabenau
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.