Burley v. Barnhard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “•‘The claim of the plaintiff was not derived through her husband. It is for services which she performed for the deceased on her sole and separate account, which she had the right to do under the statute, and consequently Edwin Burley was not an interested party, and prohibited from testifying under section 829 of the Code of Civil Procedure.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lashaw v. Croissant