Buford v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1927
8 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 Brown v. Foster · Zaleski v. Clark · Walter A. Wood Reaping & Mowing Machine Co. v. Smith · Gibson v. Cranage · Aday v. Echols
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is no ground of objection that the court dismissed the petition, without expressing leave to amend. It was done in open court, in term time. The petitioner should have requested permission to do so, if he desired to amend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hume v. Kirkwood
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.