Buck v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.2d 135 · 1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1968
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 954
Relies on Eisner v. Macomber · Gould v. Gould · Doyle v. Mitchell Bros. · Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka · Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Permanent alimony is regarded rather as a portion of the husband’s estate to which the wife is equitably entitled, than as strictly a debt; alimony from time to time may be regarded as a portion of his current income or earnings; * * *”
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.