Behrns v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Attorney General v. Johnson (1978), Sidle v. Majors (1976)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 Roe v. Wade · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson · Reed v. Reed · Doe v. Bolton
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A legislature has successfully avoided this prohibition when a statute is ‘so framed in good faith that by its terms it should apply to all parts of the state and operate on all members of the class when they come within the scope and purpose of the enactment.’ Generally, a legislature may define any class it wishes, and so long as all members of that class are treated alike the prohibition against private or special laws is not violated[.] (Citation omitted.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle as his guest without compensation for such transportation shall have cause of action for damages against such owner or operator for injury, death,, or loss, in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been caused by the willful and wanton misconduct of the owner or operator of suchi motor vehicle, and unless such willful and wanton misconduct contributed to the injury, death, or loss for which the action is brought.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““is a guarantee that ‘for such wrongs as are recognized by the law of the land the courts shall be open and afford a remedy.’ ” Simons v. Kidd, 1949, 73 S.D. 41 , 38 N.W.2d 883 . The guest statute declares that injuries suffered by a guest •because of a host’s negligence are not caused by “ ‘wrongs as recognized by the law of the land.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.