Buxton v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1990
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such emancipation may be by express agreement or may be shown by the circumstances of the case. Thus if, with his parents’ express or implied consent, a minor makes a contract for his services under which he is personally to receive the benefits of the contract, he is thereby emancipated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ware v. Ware
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.