Buck v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
January 2006
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mortarino v. Consultant Engineering Services, Inc. · Caudill v. Wise Rambler, Inc. · Chawla v. BurgerBusters, Inc. · Robbins v. Grimes · Wright v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when it manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument ... that it was intended the part of the one dying should then belong to the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“stated with reasonable certainty at the time of the ruling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rose v. Jaques
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.