Barton v. Messmore’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 39 Cal. 2d 622 - Flores v. Brown · Shields v. Oxnard Harbor District · Huebotter v. Follett · 101 Cal. App. 2d 548 - Ford v. CHESLEY TRANSPORTATION CO. INC. · 92 Cal. App. 2d 455 - Long v. Standard Oil Co.
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.
“and would justify a verdict in accordance with such testimony has been criticized as faulty but held not to be prejudicial.”
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.