Barber v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2022
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Troxel v. Granville · Manley v. Brown · Russell v. Board of County Commissioners · Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc. · Leake v. Grissom
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Suiters“'Special proceedings' is a term used to distinguish litigation that is not governed by the general regime of pleadings. They are distinguished from other civil actions by the manner of pleading, practice and procedure prescribed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hibsman v. Mullen“An appellate court claims for itself plenary, independent and non-deferential authority to re-examine a trial court's legal rulings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.