Buckner v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2013
2 district · 20 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · 46 N.C. App. 707 - Motor Inn Management, Inc. v. Irvin-Fuller Development Co. · Chavez v. Chavez · 106 Cal. App. 3d 576 - Hemmelgarn v. Boeing Co. · Torres v. Gamble
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) “the relative ease of access to sources of proof’; (2) the “availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling” witnesses; (3) “the cost of obtaining attendance of willing[] witnesses”; (4) the “possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action”; and (5) “all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive.””
3 later decisions 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.