Barry v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2002
11 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 Madison v. Larmon · Chilcott v. Hart · Walker v. Marcellus & Otisco Lake Railway 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(ilt is impossible to determine in whom the ultimate right to the estate may vest, or whether it will ever vest, ... no conveyance can pass an absolute title because it is wholly uncertain in whom the estate will vest on the happening of the event upon which the interest is to take effect.”
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.