Buchan v. Broadwell’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1951
1 district · 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 Farrar v. City of St. Louis · Atlantic & Pacific R. R. v. City of St. Louis · City of St. Louis ex rel. Lohrum v. Coons · City of St. Louis v. Armstrong · City of St. Louis ex rel. Carroll v. Hardy
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature, in the exercise of its paramount control of the state, could have authorized the council to have ordered the grading of streets at the expense of property owners without any petition.” (And equally without provision for remonstrance.) Buchan v. Broadwell, 88 Mo. 31 ; Bank v. Clark, 252 Mo. 20 , 30, 81, 158 S. W. 597 ; Field v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. (D. C.) 117 Fed. 925 ; Id., 191 U. S. 618 -621, 24 Sup. Ct. 784 , 48 L. Ed. 1142 .”
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.