Button v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1987
7 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 Almond v. Gilmer · Farquhar v. Board of Supervisors · Button v. Day
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are payable only from the specified revenue sources and the [bondholders] may not look to the State's general revenue for payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Mazur“shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the Commonwealth . . . or a pledge of the faith and credit of the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Mazur
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.