Curtis v. Barby’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2003
9 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 Pettis v. Johnston · Barker v. St. Louis County · Independent Cotton Oil Co. v. Beacham · Koebel Ex Rel. Koebel v. Tieman Coal & Material Co. · Coats v. Riley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Reason dictates and the validity and finality of judgments require that when a litigant obtains a valid and binding judgment, rendered pursuant to and in accordance with rules of procedure approved by this Court, a subsequent opinion promulgated by this Court approving a different procedure should not vitiate or affect the validity of such previous valid and binding judgment.” at 622.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wootten v. Askew““ * * * if the overruled decision is one dealing with procedural law or adjective law the effect of the subsequent overruling decision is prospective only; but if the overruled decision is one dealing with substantive law the effect of the subsequent overruling decision is retroactive.””
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.