Barker v. Sauls’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Dorrell v. South Carolina Department of Transportation (2004), Kleckley v. Northwestern National Casualty Co. (2000)
5 federal appellate · 16 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 Terlinde v. Neely · Edward's of Byrnes Downs v. Charleston Sheet Metal 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] tort-feasor may be subjected to tort liability for injury to a third party arising out of the tort-feasor's contractual relationship with another, despite the absence of privity between the tort-feasor and the third party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is essential to liability for negligence that the parties have some relationship recognized by law to support the duty owed by the tort-feasor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he tort-feasor's liability exists independently of contract, and rests upon the tort-feasor's duty to exercise due care.”
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.