Ross v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1836
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1894
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 Huidekoper's Lessee v. Douglass · Lessee of Maclay v. Work · Lessee of Patterson v. Cochran · Latimer & Yard v. Ridge · 4 Serg. & Rawle 401 - Bedford v. Shilling
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The point raised (the non-existence of William Barber) is disposed of by the decision in Campbell v. Galbraith, 1 Watts, 78 , that the beneficial owner may maintain ejectment in the name of a nominal warrantee, ignorant both of the action and the trust,.no more being required than to disclose the name of the actual party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Patterson
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.