Buchanan v. Kennard’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably Dickey v. Volker (1928), Dykeman v. Jenkines (1913)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · Chambers v. City of St. Louis · Hayes v. Pratt · Burbank v. Burbank
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was not necessary that the bequest should have been more definite as to the selection of the objects of the public charity, or for administering and carrying out the purposes of the gift, than it was made in this provision of the will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Irwin v. Swinney““But a person who is sick, injured, or afflicted, or in a helpless condition, is none the less a proper object to be included in the purpose of a public charity, although he may not be poor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.