Burger v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1944
11 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 83 W. Va. 355 - Simpson v. Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Robinson v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... We are furthermore of the opinion that the old rule, giving preference in making runs of trains according to seniority, did not create a property right in plaintiffs such as to justify the interference by a court of equity to prevent the operation of the rule.””
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.