Barrett v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2011
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Ashbaugh v. Trotter · Hatch v. O'NEILL
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that infants should be provided a defense to tort liability rather than immunity from it ... or that immunity, if provided, should extend only to infants of a far more tender age than 12 . . . address themselves to the General Assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horton v. Hinely
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.