Rush v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably James Francis v. Arthur T. Lyman (1954), Broom v. Douglass (1912)
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Bradley v. Fisher · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Ex parte Siebold · Coy · Ex parte Parks
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or reasons founded on public policy, and in order to secure a prompt and effective service of legal process, the law protects its officers in the performance of their duties, if there is no defect or want of jurisdiction apparent on the face of the writ or warrant under which they act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torrez v. Knowlton
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.