Buckingham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably U. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), The Honorable William M. Gabler, Sr. v. Crime Victims Rights Board (2017)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Matter of Richardson · State ex rel. Workman v. Goldthait · People ex rel. Hoyne v. McCormick · State ex rel. Chandler v. Howell · Stockton v. McFarland
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are convinced from all the authorities that the Legislative branch of government has no authority to add further qualifications in connection with a constitutional judicial officer where the qualifications are provided by the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * It is the general law that where a constitution creates an office and prescribes the qualifications that the incumbent must possess, that the legislature has no power to add to these qualifications. 1 Cooley’s Constitutional Limitation, 8th Ed., 140; Meecham on Public Offices, Secs. 65 and 98; Throop on Public Offices, Sec. 73; Annotations, 47 A.L.R. 481 and 97 Am.Dec. 264. * * * * * * “We are convinced from all the authorities that the Legislative branch of government has no authority to add further qualifications in connection with a constitutional * * * , officer where the qualifications are provided by the Constitution. * * *.””
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.