Barnette v. Wells Fargo Nevada Nat Bank of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
270 U.S. 438 · 1926
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Gay v. Ruff (1934), Cabot Corp. v. AVX Corp. (2007)
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Martin · Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * at the election of him whose act was induced by it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The purpose of the suit was to recover land and funds then in charge of the receiver of a court in Alaska [at that time a federal territorial court] which was created by laws of Congress, and derived its powers and authority from those laws.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for or on account of any act done under color of his [the receiver’s] office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gay v. Ruff
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.