Barr v. Cockrill’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1997
16 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 Wernimont v. State ex rel. Little Rock Bar Ass'n · Terry v. Plunkett-Jarrell Grocery Co. · Lingo v. Swicord · Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Swilling · Metzger v. Mann
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Every other action may be brought in any county in which the defendant, or one (1) of several defendants, resides or is summoned. (c) Where any action embraced in subsection (a) of this section is against several defendants, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to judgment against any of them on the service of summons in another county than that in which the action is brought, where no one of the defendants is summoned in that county, or resided in that county at the commencement of the action, or where, if any of them resided, or were summoned in that county, the action is discontinued or dismissed as to them, or judgment in the action is rendered in their favor, unless the defendant summoned in another county, having appeared in the action, failed to object before the judgment to its proceeding against him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * It is the policy and spirit of our law, enacted into statute hy our Legislature, that every defendant shall he sued in the township or county of his residence. To this general principle there are statutory exceptions, chiefly in cases where there is a joint liability against two or more defendants residing in different counties. In such cases it is provided that suits may be brought in the county of the residence of any of the defendants, and service of summons can then be had upon the other defendants in any county, thereby giving jurisdiction over their persons to the court wherein the suit is thus instituted. Kirby’s Digest, §§ 6072 and 4588 Ark. Stats. 27-613 and 26-304]. But, before this jurisdiction can be acquired by virtue of these statutes over the person of such defendants nonresident of the county wherein the suit is instituted, it is essential that the defendant resident of the county where the suit is brought shall be a bona fide defendant. By our statute, it is further provided that, before judgment can' be had against such nonresident defendants, a judgment must be obtained against the resident defendant. Kirby’s Digest, § 6074 [Ark. Stat. 27-615].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Again, we use the term “jointly liable” in the sense that there must be a common liability of the defendants on the same cause of action. It is clear from the complaint filed in Circuit Court that only several liability is alleged against petitioners and that separate judgments are sought against each defendant for a different debt based on separate policies of insurance.”
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.