Barnes v. Fort’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1987
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Jardine v. Superior Court · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. State ex rel. Nelson · Carpenters' Union v. Citizens Committee to Enforce the Landis Award · Boyd v. United States Mortgage & Trust Co. · Manistee Mill Co. v. Hobdy
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the parties, either plaintiffs or defendants, who would be affected by a judgment, are so numerous that it would be impracticable to bring them all before the court, it has been held or recognized that the provisions of sec. 11 of the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act will not preclude the bringing of a declaratory judgment action as a class action in which the parties appear by representation.”
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.