Burdett v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 1375 · 1992
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Continental Illinois Securities Litigation: Steinlauf v. Continental Illinois Corporation Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Eiger (1992), Richmond v. Nationwide Cassel L.P. (1995)
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Randall v. Loftsgaarden · United States v. Berkowitz · United States v. Neapolitan · McKinnon v. City of Berwyn
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fiduciary duty is the duty of an agent to treat his principal with the utmost candor, rectitude, care, loyalty, and good faith — in fact to treat the principal as well as the agent would treat himself”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“changed the plaintiff's theory of the case after the time had passed for the defendant to present contrary evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here must be some structure, to distinguish an enterprise from a mere conspiracy, but there need not be much.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.