Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
24 U.S. 415 · 1826
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States (2015), Indianapolis and St Louis Railroad Company v. Horst (1876)
4 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although in the opinion of the court there was sufficient evidence in the special verdict from which the jury might have found the fact, yet they have not found it, and the court could not, upon a special verdict, intend it. The special verdict was defective in stating the evidence of the fact, instead of the fact itself. It was impossible, therefore, that a judgment could be pronounced for the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where in a special verdict the essential facts are not distinctly found by the jury, although there is sufficient evidence to establish them, this court will not render judgment upon such an imperfect special verdict, but will remand the case to the court below with directions to award a venire facias de novo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Walker
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.