Burt v. Panjaud’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 180 · 1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999 · most notably Haws v. Victoria Copper Mining Co. (1895), 111 Ga. App. 158 - Grasham v. Southern Railway Co. (1965)
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Engels v. Lubeck
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we are further of [the] opinion that a juror is, no more than a witness, obliged to disclose on oath his guilt of any crime, or of any act which would disgrace him, in order to test his qualification as a juror. The question asked him, if answered in the affirmative, would have admitted his guilt of the crime of treason. Whether pardoned by a general amnesty or not pardoned, we think the crime was one which he could not be required to disclose in this manner.” Burt, 99 U.S. at 181 , 25 L. Ed. at 453 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In an action of ejectment or trespass to land, actual possession, or receipt of rent by plaintiffs prior to eviction, is prima facie evidence of title, on which recovery can be had against a naked trespasser.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holden v. Lynn
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.