Barker v. . Savage’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably Knapp v. . Barrett (1915), McClain v. . Brooklyn City R.R. Co. (1889)
1 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 14 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Footmen have no right of way at a crossing in a city street superior to that of vehicles. Each have the right of passage in common, and in its use art bound to exercise reasonable care for their own safety, and to avoid doing injury to others who may be in the use of the right of way with them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoagland v. Canfield
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.