Barth v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Torres v. State (1995), Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 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 Collister v. Nationwide Life Insurance · Pierce v. Georgia · Kansas State Bank & Trust Co. v. Specialized Transportation Services, Inc. · Scott v. Rizzo · Sparks v. St. Paul Insurance
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhe proprietor of a place of business ... is subject to liability to guests who are upon the premises and who are injured by the harmful acts of third persons if, by the exercise of reasonable care, the proprietor could have discovered that such acts were being done or about to be done, and could have protected against the injury by controlling the conduct of the other patron.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ratio of such defendant's fault to the total fault attributed to all persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehead
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.