Barnes v. Lednum’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Baltimore Transit Co. v. Mezzanotti (1961), E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Forma-Pack, Inc. (1998)
45 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Day v. State · Eastern States Corp. v. Eisler · Hallman v. Gross · Weihenmayer v. Bitner
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mutual discovery of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation. To that end, either party may compel the other to disgorge whatever facts he has within his possession ... [MJodern discovery statutes or rules are intended to facilitate discovery, not to stimulate the ingenuity of lawyers and judges to make the pursuit of discovery an obstacle race ... No longer can the time honored cry of ‘fishing expedition’ serve to preclude a party from inquiry into the facts underlying his opponent’s case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blades v. Woods““If every order granting or denying discovery is a final appealable order, it would seem that every ruling on evidence would be separately appealable.” Id. at 405 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lang v. Catterton
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.