Barnett v. Equitable Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.2d 916 · 1929
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026
7 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Heckman v. United States · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · Lamar v. Micou · Hoyt v. Sprague · Morgan v. Potter
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means no more than that we will not intervene, so long as we think that the (discretion exercised) is within permissible limits,”
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.