Buckley v. Buckley’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2013
6 federal appellate · 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 Eleanor Erica Strong v. Francisco Gutierrez Repide · Candler v. Heigho · Oliver v. Oliver · Stewart v. Harris · Yanelli v. Littlejohn
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The special circumstances producing exceptional cases seem to be, an assured sale, merger, or other fact or condition enhancing the value of the stock, known by the officer or officers, not known by the stockholder, and not to be ascertained by an inspection of the books.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gammon v. Dain
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.