Perkinson v. Burford’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2009
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.
Relationships
Relies on Boten v. Brecklein · Abramson v. City of San Angelo · Janssen v. Guaranty Land Title Co. · North County School District R-1 v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland · Gottlieb v. Hyken
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.
“Though this instruction is primarily for tort actions, its use in breach of contract actions has been given judicial approbation and is congruent with current case law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trimble v. Pracna
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.