Buckland v. Goit’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1950
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the time that this contest was dismissed, it was too late for the contestor to commence a new contest, and hence, if this dismissal were to be sustained,' it would be a final determination of the case, and a final determination upon a pure technicality. • This the law never encourages, and especially not where cases are to be tried before inferior tribunals, not skilled in the law. It is a dangerous thing for an inferior tribunal, not skilled in the law, to attempt to decide cases upon pure legal .technicalities. Superior courts seldom attempt any such thing. And the law always encourages trials upon the merits, and never encourages final determinations upon mere technicalities of any kind.” (Page 330.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lawrence v. Wheeler
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.