Bartron v. Northampton County’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Berberian v. Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n (1959), Quein Will (1948)
5 federal appellate · 62 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 Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Taylor v. Moore · Colteryahn Sanitary Dairy v. Milk Control Commission · Fogelsville & Trexlertown Electric Co. v. Pennsylvania Power & Light 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There has been developed in this Commonwealth a doctrine, based on an early statute (Act of 1806), that where a remedy or method of procedure is provided by an Act, its provisions shall be strictly pursued and exclusively applied.””
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.