Barton v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
February 1976
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Dennert · Borden v. General Insurance Co. of America · Bolio v. Scholting · Wieck v. Blessin · Higgins v. Loup River Public Power District
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instructions do not define either positively or negatively, in the light of the evidence adduced on the trial, what would amount to false arrest or false imprisonment. From the instructions given the jury could not comprehensively determine the paramount issue in this case, that is, whether or not plaintiff was unlawfully arrested and detained by the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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