Barnes v. Horne’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2008
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Webster v. Lowe · 10 Tex. Civ. App. 629 - Williams v. Noland · Pilcher v. Pilcher · Morrison v. Bartlett
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An instrument is testamentary in character when it makes a disposition of the testator's property, or a portion thereof, to take effect at his death."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"* * * I will do everything I can for her and everything I have is hers if I happen to cash in."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“( Pilcher v. Pilcher , 117 Va. 356 , 84 S.E. 667 .)”
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.