Barnes v. Plessner’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1939
6 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 Meyer v. Phoenix Insurance · Trimble v. Elkin · Sawyer v. Burris · 53 Mo. App. 44 - Sappington v. Lenz · Barnes v. Plessner
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.
““Every action recognizable before a justice of the peace shall be brought before some justice of the township, either: First, wherein the defendants, or one of them, resides, or in any adjoining township,, etc. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This is of itself certainly sufficient to support the jurisdiction of the justice, for, as before said, the fact appears in the judgment roll.””
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.