Burt v. Carrier’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2001
6 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 Pan American Production Co. v. Robichaux
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.
“"We feel that the act of the vendor in signing the erroneous map, which was not prepared by a civil engineer or a surveyor but which was prepared by the vendee himself, was an act of error on the part of the vendor, and would not change the obvious intention of the parties as expressed in the written act of sale." (Emphasis ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The record shows, without a doubt, that it was not the intention of the original vendor, Harvey C. Blanchard, nor the intention of the vendee, petitioner herein, that the disputed property was to be included in the sale of the plantation. * * * The record further shows that the golf course had been operated as such for several years prior to the sale of the surrounding property, and that the boundaries of said golf course has not changed from said time until present. At the time of the sale, as now, the boundaries of the golf course are made up of fences, headlands, roadways, trees, and fields and were therefore easily distinguishable. The only thing which brings forth the present dispute is the fact that an erroneous map prepared by the vendee in the original sale was attached to said sale and showed false boundaries."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. James v. Buchert“all of said reservation being accurately and specifically described and delineated on the plat of survey attached hereto and made a part hereof and paraphed `Ne Varietur' by me, Notary, for identification herewith.”
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.