Buck v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2007
15 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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · Sharkey v. McDermott · Healey v. Simpson · Lynn v. Hookaday · Wales v. Holden
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts must be very careful not to lower the standard of proof in such cases, for, if that standard be lowered or weakened, the danger of unfounded and trumped-up claims being established against a person after his death is very great.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benjamin v. Cronan
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.