Buffum v. Peter Barceloux Co.’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 227 · 1933
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 16 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Pepper v. Litton (1939), Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989)
58 federal appellate · 16 district · 29 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
reviewedPeter Barceloux Co. v. Buffum (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Moore v. Bay Estate of Sassard & Kimball · Josiah Coder v. William Arts · Schoenthal v. Irving Trust Co. · Dean v. Davis
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a transfer is only a step in a general plan, the plan 'must be viewed as a whole with all its composite implications.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““What the trustee recovers will be for the benefit of all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.