Barton v. Plaisted’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
June 1993
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McCarthy v. Souther · Carter v. Bergeron · Frost v. Stevens · Caldwell v. Yeatman · Saidel v. Union Assurance Society, Ltd.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the moving party was not at fault for not discovering the evidence at the former trial; (2) that the evidence is admissible (citation omitted), material to the merits, and not cumulative; and (3) that it must be of such a character that a different result will probably be reached upon another trial;”
2 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.