Buckle v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2009
14 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 Harris v. Citizens Bank & Trust Co. · Powers v. Powers · Trotman v. Trotman · Cannon v. Searles · Parksley National Bank v. Parks
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statute furnishing immunity to those who invest according to the provisions of the statute ....” Id. at 512. The dearth of cases interpreting Va.Code §§ 26-40 and 26-40.01 as they apply to § 26-45.1 makes clear that the statutory language is so plain and unambiguous that no judicial analysis is needed to conclude that a fiduciary who invests in a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judge Harrison in his work, Wills and Administration, Vol. 1, page 702 says: "the statute of Virginia furnishes immunity to the Virginia fiduciary who invests according to the provisions of the statute, and the reasons for departing therefrom should be very urgent, although, as heretofore pointed out, the statute is altogether permissive.””
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.