John Buchser v. Annie Buchser’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1968
10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Gibson v. Chouteau · McCune v. Essig · Bernier v. Bernier · Irvine v. Marshall
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt, of course, that until the title is completed the laws of the United States control. (Citing cases.) But when the title has passed, then the land ‘like all other property in the state is subject to the state legislation.’ (Citing cases.) If the United States could impress a peculiar character upon land within a state after parting with all title to it, at least the clearest expression would be necessary before such a result could be reached. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the land like all other property in the state is subject to state legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doucet v. Fontenot
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.