Buchanan v. Layne’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1961
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 Harrison v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · School District No. 1 v. Dauchy · McQuiddy v. Brannock · Cowley v. Davidson · Anderson v. May
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract was not, generally, to mine and place ore upon the market, but it was to take ore from a certain defined and described tract of land and place it upon the market. Undoubtedly the contract was based upon the assumption that ore could be found; that is, would continue to exist on said tract. It was not within the contemplation of either defendant or plaintiff that ore should be produced and marketed at all hazards; for the ore that was to be produced and marketed was to be taken from certain land, and if that land had become exhausted of ore, if ore had ceased to exist on that land, then it must have been understood by the parties that that portion of the contract would not be expected to be performed.””
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.