Buchhalter v. Rude’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.2d 834 · 1931
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1976
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relationships
Relies on Trustees v. Greenough · In Re Peterson · Grafton v. United States · William W. Bierce, Ltd. v. Hutchins · The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Brideg Company William Otterson and George Croft
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of courts of equity over costs does not rest upon the statutes, but upon usage long continued. * * * costs as between solicitor and client (are allowed) where the litigation is false, unjust, vexatious, wanton, or oppressive.”
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.