Barrett v. . Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1982
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Gordon v. . Collett
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is competent for the Legislature to provide what mode of probate shall be valid, and when it does so, it can affect past as well as future probates, except that the rights of third parties, claiming prior to the validating act, cannot be divested. Retrospective legislation is not necessarily invalid. It is only so to the extent it would divest vested rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fibre Co. v. . Cozad
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.