Barry v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 1947 · most notably Wells v. Shriver (1921), Cary v. Richardson (1883)
1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 14 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As sole surviving partner he had the entire legal title to all the assets. He had the right to dispose of them as he pleased, to settle all debts to or against the concern, to make any compromises deemed necessary, and to turn the assets into an available and distributable form. His duty was to act honestly, and to use reasonable discretion and diligence.””
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.