Barton v. Dowis’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2004
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 Stanley Manly Boys Clothes, Inc. v. Hickey · Lindsay v. Davis · Cline v. Mock · 231 Mo. App. 303 - Dickinson v. Abernathy Furniture Co. · Matlock v. Meyers
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Where an article is sold for a special purpose, it carries with it a warranty that it is fit for that purpose. And that applies to animals.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“knows, or has reason to know, the animal he sells is afflicted with a disease not known to the purchaser, and not discernible on inspection. . . .”
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.