Bartoni's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Derinza's Case (1918), Devine's Case (1921)
40 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hanscom v. Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co. · Murphy's Case · Gillen's Case · Coakley's Case · Gove's Case
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to the weekly award was not vested absolutely in the widow; but continued only during her life. The right to compensation on her account ceased with her death.””
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.