Buechold v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.2d 371 · 1968
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Pacheco De Perez v. AT&T Co. (1998), Crouch v. Crouch (1978)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State of North Carolina · Burrus · Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · State of Ohio Popovici v. Agler · Charles Simms v. Hannah T Simms
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a matter of policy and comity, these local problems should be decided in state courts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal courts must decline jurisdiction of cases concerning domestic relations when the primary issue concerns the status of parent and child or husband and wife.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife . . . belong to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions 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.