Buffington v. Buffington’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Estate of Yoell (1913), Rieger v. Schaible (1908)
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 11 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 McNutt v. McNutt · Langley v. Mayhew · Claypool v. Jaqua · Kennedy v. Kennedy · Hurley v. McIver
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Antenuptial contracts are not in such disfavor as to require rigid construction. On the contrary, they are favored by the law as promoting domestic happiness and adjusting .property questions which would otherwise often be the source of fruitful litigation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The stipulation as to support was not a condition upon which the validity of the contract was made to depend, and the allegation of a breach would not support a claim of forfeiture.” (p. 205.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. Munn
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.