Buttlar v. Buttlar’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1971
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to the benefit of the rules of evidence which a court of law would have enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“will the enforcement of this agreement work any injustice or hardship to the defendant?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Cohen“in favor of the complainant for the amount due according to the terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Cohen
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.