Buckley v. Chadwick’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson (1956), 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District (1961)
4 federal appellate · 86 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 Hayes v. State of Missouri · Railroad Company v. Jones · 31 Cal. 2d 586 - Vaughn v. Jonas · Vallejo & Northern R.R. v. Reed Orchard Co. · Bond v. United R.R. of S.F.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a generally accepted principle that in adopting legislation the Legislature is presumed to have had knowledge of existing domestic judicial decisions and to have enacted and amended statutes in the light of such decisions as have a direct bearing upon them.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon himself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whereas no Action at Law is now maintainable against a Person who by his wrongful Act, Neglect, or Default may have caused the Death of another Person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the Wrongdoer in such Case should be answerable in Damages for the Injury so caused by him: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That whensoever the Death of a Person shall be caused by wrongful Act, Neglect, or Default, and the Act, Neglect, or Default is such as would (if Death had not ensued) have entitled the Party injured to maintain an action and recover Damages in respect thereof, then and in every such Case the Person who would have been liable if Death had not ensued shall be liable to an Action for Damages, notwithstanding the Death of the person injured, and although the Death shall have been caused under such Circumstances as amount in Law to Felony. II.And be it enacted, That every such Action shall be for the benefit of the Wife, Husband, Parent, and Child of the person whose Death shall have been so caused, and shall be brought by and in the Name of the Executor or Administrator of the Person deceased; and in every such Action the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the Injury resulting from such Death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit su”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.