Buhl v. Kavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 315 · 1941
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Bixby v. Commissioner (1972), King Enterprises, Inc. v. United States (1969)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Bull v. United States · Stone v. White · United States v. Phellis · Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Minnesota · DeGanay v. Lederer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘grantor’ is not defined in the statutes, and therefore is to be given its natural, ordinary and familiar meaning. (Case cited.) Putting the word in its ordinary setting, it means the person who establishes the trust or its donor, creator or founder."’”
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.