Burks v. Davies’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1942 · most notably Easton v. Montgomery (1891), Walker v. Harbor Business Blocks Co. (1919)
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 ex rel. Arnold v. Justus · Marshall v. Caldwell · Sanders v. Lansing
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a person takes upon himself to contract for the sale of an estate, and is not absolute owner of It, nor is it in Ills power, by the ordinary course of law or equity, to make himself so, though the owner offer to make the seller a title, yet equity will not force the buyer to take; for any seller-ought to be a bona fide contractor, and it would load to infinite mischief if an owner were nermitted to speculate upon the sale of another’s estate. Tendring v. London, 2 Eq. Cas. Abr. 680."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Smith
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.