Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Morissette v. United States (1952), Dawkins v. State (1988)
43 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`So too, it should be understood, that merely colourable dissent, or a prohibition not to sell [or deliver], however publicly or frequently repeated, if not made bona fide, will not avail. But if a sale [or delivery] of liquor is made by the servant, without the knowledge of the master, and really in opposition to his will, and in no way participated in, approved or countenanced by him; and this is clearly shown, by the master; he ought to be acquitted.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The language used is too clear and too positive to be mistaken; nor can we mistake the evil aimed at, by the legislature.”
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.