William Buckner v. Finley and Van Lear Citizens of the State of Maryland’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 586 · 1829
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2001 · most notably McPherson v. Blacker (1892), Hanley v. Donoghue (1885)
7 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Canter v. American & Ocean Insurance Co. of New York · Edwards v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For all national purposes embraced by the Federal Constitution, the States and the citizens thereof are one, united under the same sovereign authority, and governed by the same laws. In all other respects, the Stales are necessarily-foreign to and independent of- each other. Their constitutions and forms of government being, although republican, altogether different, as are their laws and institutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanley v. Donoghue
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.