Maynard v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1971 · most notably New England Coal & Coke Co. v. Northern Barge Corporation (1932), Simon v. Town of Needham (1942)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not to control the judgment of the jury, [or the court without a jury] if they see that in the case under consideration it is not such conduct as a prudent man would adopt in his own affairs, or not such as a due regard to the obligations of those employed in the affairs of others would require them to adopt.”
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.