Barker v. Lashbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. v. Daniel (1951), Jennings v. Amerada Petroleum Corp. (1937)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 Abercrombie v. Simmons · Marks v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Roxana Petroleum Corp. v. Jarvis · Platt v. Woodland
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Experience revealed that separate ownership of long narrow strips of land distinct from the territory adjoining on each side, was prolific of private dispute and public disturbance, and public policy became an important factor in the interpretation. Therefore it became settled doctrine that a deed of land abutting on a road passes a moiety of the road, unless intention not to do so be clearly indicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.