Boyd v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Laughlin v. Forgrave (1968), Davis v. Laclede Gas Co. (1980)
36 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 Campbell v. Whoriskey · Palmer v. Palmer · High v. Board of Commissioners · Kraft v. Thomas · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Burlingame Township
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute . . . declares that limitation will begin to run when ‘the cause of action shall have accrued’ and we have decided at this term that a cause of action has accrued when a right exists to institute a suit for its enforcement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.