Buford v. Buford’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 567 · 1946
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1969 · most notably Griffin v. United States (1949), Martin v. Martin (1947)
12 federal appellate · 10 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 Parks v. Parks · Richardson v. Richardson · Bowers v. Bowers · Vanderhuff v. Vanderhuff
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though testimony is necessary and admissions in . pleadings are not enough, the testimony of a party need not be corroborated when it is undisputed, the suit is contested, and no collusion appears.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.