Grant v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis
172 U.S. 232 · 1898
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2008 · most notably Heiser v. Woodruff (1946), Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon (1912)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Johnson v. Waters · Winchester Trustee v. Heiskell · Mays v. Fritton · Mellen v. Buckner
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a rule courts do not create, but simply determine, rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Daugherty
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.