Barnes v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

232 U.S. 117 · 1914

Citation profile

373

cited by 373 later decisions

cited 20 times by the Supreme Court

states following

July 2020

most recently cited

158 federal appellate · 44 district · 58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 373 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. (2006), Cascade Natural Gas Corporation v. El Paso Natural Gas Co People of State of California (1967)

158 federal appellate · 44 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 18 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.

Appellate journey

reviewedBarnes v. Shattuck

Relationships

Relies on National City Bank v. Hotchkiss · Trist v. Child · Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H · Sexton v. Kessler & Co.

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 373 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“'the contractor ... gets a title to the thing.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Popowski v. Parrott · Union Trust Co. of Maryland v. Townshend
“Having a lien upon the fund, as soon as it was identified they could follow it into the hands of the appellant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Montanile v. Board of Trustees of Nat. Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan · 2000 Conn. Super. Ct. 9974 - Kubeck v. Cossette, No. Cv97-0478533s (Aug. 18, 2000)
“•‘too start, however, with the principle that an informal business transaction should be so construed as adopting whatever form, consistent with tlie facts, is most fitted to reach the result seemingly desired.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Atherton v. Beaman

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.