Barr v. Wackman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc. (1991), Francis v. United Jersey Bank (1981)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]cting officially, the board, qua board, is claimed to have participated or acquiesced in assertedly wrongful transactions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the alleged wrongdoers control or comprise a majority of the directors.”
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.