Tipton v. Burson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Chanay v. Chittenden (1977), City of Tucson v. Koerber (1957)
2 district · 42 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 Campbell v. . Gates · Southwest Cotton Co. v. Ryan · 94 Cal. App. 2d 957 - Caccamo v. Swanston · Valley Transp. System v. Reinartz · Meason v. Ralston Purina Co.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . does not necessarily imply spite or ill will but malice in its legal sense and by this is meant ‘the intentional doing of a wrongful act without justification or excuse, [cites omitted].’ ” Meason v. Ralston Purina Co., 56 Ariz. 291, 300 , 107 P.2d 224, 228 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chanay v. Chittenden
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.