Ex Parte Buller’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2015
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller · Ex Parte Preston · Ex Parte Claude D. Birkhead · Ex Parte Gorena · Ex Parte Britton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trustee or other fiduciary such as a legal representative or independent executrix may constitutionally be fined and jailed for contemptuously refusing to obey an order to turn over funds held in her hands and subject to her right of possession to a proper authority or entity that is lawfully and rightfully entitled to those funds for levy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Byrom“unless the contemner demonstrates inability to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.