State ex rel. Buford v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), Whitney v. Hillsborough County (1930)
104 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 Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · Blair v. City of Chicago · Shurtleff v. United States · Lainhart v. Catts · State v. Bryan
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The respective counties of the state shall provide in the manner prescribed by law for those of the inhabitants that by reason of age, infirmity or misfortune, may have claims upon the aid and sympathy of society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The statute relating to particular subdivisions or portions of the state or to particular places of classified localities is a local law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“regulating the jurisdiction and duties of any class of officers except municipal officers.”
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.