Barber v. . Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1990
12 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action in court is not ended by the rendition of a judgment, but in certain respects it is still pending until the judgment is satisfied. . . . Motion affecting the judgment but not the merits of the original controversy may be made in the cause. . . . This is particularly true of judgments ... in actions for alimony without divorce, in which it may not be said that the judgment is in all respects final. . . . Such actions are always open for motions in the cause. . . .”
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.