Burbank v. Conrad’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 291 · 1877
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1951
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 The United States v. Jonah Crosby · Mitchell v. United States · Coppell v. Hall · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. William Owens · Henderson's Distilled Spirits
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court cannot enlarge the operations of the stringent provisions of the statute. The plaintiff had notice of the character and legal effect of the decree of condemnation when he purchased, and is therefore presumed to have known that if the alleged offender possessed no estate in the premises at the time of their seizure, nothing passed to the United States by the- decree or to him by his. purchase.”
1 later decision 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.