Burg v. Ruby Drilling Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Pennzoil Co. · Western Plains Service Corporation v. Ponderosa Development Corporation a H · Wyoming Sawmills, Inc. v. Morris · Ricci v. New Hampshire Insurance Co. · Johnston v. Conoco, Inc.
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.
“'Lien statutes create remedies in derogation of common law and must be strictly construed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winter v. Pleasant
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.