Barr v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1981
7 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 The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · Haviland v. . Willets · Peterson v. First National Bank of Ceylon · Renard v. Clink · Stone v. Hale
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Barr had a legal defense but failed to assert it because he relied upon his mistaken understanding of the law. He subsequently failed to act with diligence to ascertain the correct rule of law. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Judgments otherwise valid should not be lightly overturned because of after-discovered defenses.””
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.