Buffendeau v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1975
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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bond took effect from its delivery, and its legality is to be determined by reference to the state of things then existing. Though the undertaking disclosed no unlawful purpose on its face, still it is entirely manifest that it was given for the purpose of inducing the sheriff to violate an existing judicial order. Edmondson knew of the injunction and so did Brooks. . . . “The character of the bond depends upon the character of the sale; and the sale was not merely a civil injury to Buffendeau, assuming that the judgment against him had been discharged in insolvency, but it involved a willful and apparently deliberate disobedience to public authority. . . (p. 644.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robley v. Smith
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.