Buckingham v. Buckingham’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1973
8 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 Rowe v. Kellogg
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There would seem to- be no legal principle which would prevent her from voluntarily deserting her husband, and abandoning her homestead. She is in no sense the slave of her husband, and is so far the master of her own will that she has liberty to remain with her husband, or go from him, as she pleases; and he has no legal remedy to compel her to return.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. People
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.