Barnum v. Barnum’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Ross v. Ross (1880), Bullock v. Director of Patuxent Institution (1963)
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But as to capacity to acquire property beyond the State passing the Act, by virtue of the particular status given the party, that the Legislature could not confer. Even if the act had professed to legitimate John R. Barnum, without reference to previous marriage, it could have no operation here and no rights involved in this case could be affected by it. This would seem to be clear both on reason and authority.””
1 later decision 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.