Barbour v. Shebor’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Cooper v. Agee (1930), Reaves v. Maybank (1915)
52 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 Hennessey v. Taylor · Memphis & Charleston Railroad v. Martin · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Williams · Southern Railway Co. v. Weatherlow · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Burgess
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * Each party, in order to avoid accident, is bound to exercise ordinary care and such reasonable prudence and precaution as the attending circumstances may require.’ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The simple rule is that drivers on the street and pedestrians, each recognizing the rights of the other, are required to exercise reasonable care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ivy v. Marx
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.