State v. Barba’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1981
1 district · 7 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 Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Ritchie v. People · State v. Goodwill · Godcharles & Co. v. Wigeman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A classification based merely on the circumstance of clay and night work in some factories, and day or night work in others, not affecting- the hours of labor, rests on an arbitrary distinction, which' cannot be recognized as warranting legislative interference with the liberty of contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cullom
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.