Burroughs v. Eastman’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1934
4 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 Attorney General ex rel. Hart v. Cain
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the opinion that plaintiff’s counsel is correct in his contention. The statute creating the superior court must be construed in reference to the provisions of the charter of the city of Grand Rapids and the police force act; and from an examination of the three acts it appears that policemen of the city and the police officers are not named in the charter, and do not come within the designation of the superior court act as city officers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Uhr
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.