Barnette v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
289 F. 567 · 1923
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Vicki Bagley Realty, Inc. v. Laufer (1984), Weatherford v. Adams (1926)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore · United States v. Bethlehem Steel Co. · Willson v. Mayor of Baltimore · Hedrick v. Firke · 30 App. D.C. 270 - District of Columbia v. Harlan & Hollingsworth 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Uncertainty in amount and difficulty of ascertainment of damages are regarded as supporting the view that a contract provides for liquidated damages rather than a penalty....”
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.