Barber v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Eaton v. Brown · McCartney v. Osburn · Walker v. Hibbard · American Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Eckhardt · Calkins v. Calkins
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Washington, D. C. Aug. 31"/001. “I am going on a Journey and may, not ever return. And if I do not, this is my last request. The Mortgage on the King House, which is in the possession of Mr. H. H. Brown to go to the Methodist Church at Bloomingburgh All the rest of my properday both real and personal to My adopted'Son L. B. Eaton of the life Saving Service, Treasury Department Washington D. G, All I have is my one hard earnings and and I propose to leave it to whome I please. Caroline Holley.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Greimann“. “ * * * the circumstances mentioned were the occasion for his act, and not at all that his death while on that trip was a contingency without which the will would not become operative. * * * “The deceased was still a young man, and it would not be strange or unnatural if, * * * the idea of death was associated in his mind most prominently with the possibility of accident, thus leading him to use the expression which he employed in the writing. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Pearl's Estate
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.