Crane v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
203 U.S. 441 · 1906
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably William Bierce v. William Waterhouse (1911), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Atlas Machine & Iron Works, Inc. (1986)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBuckley v. Crane (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gay v. Parpart · Kountze v. Omaha Hotel Co. · Babbitt v. Finn · Hopkins v. Orr
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that the obligation of sureties upon bonds is strietissimi juris and not to be extended by implication or enlarged construction of the terms of the contract entered into.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Now, the condition of the above obligation is such that if the said [Buckley] shall prosecute his appeal to effect, and shall answer all damages and costs that have been and shall be awarded against him, if he fails to make his appeal good, and if he shall answer all damages that shall accrue to the said respondent by reason of the value of the use and occupation of the land and premises from the time of said appeal until the delivery of possession thereof to said [Crane], and for all waste committed thereon, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff in error or the appellant shall prosecute his writ to effect, and, if he fail to make his plea good, shall answer all damages and costs....”
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.