Barnard v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 201 Ill. 2d 95 - Sarkissian v. Chicago Board of Education (2002), 197 Ill. 2d 514 - Steinbrecher v. Steinbrecher (2001)
7 federal appellate · 111 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 McJilton v. Love · Ure v. Ure · First National Bank v. Road District No. 8 · Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Education · Anderson v. Anderson
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'at any time or in any court, either directly or collaterally.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.