State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1997
13 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 Anders v. California · Douglas v. People of State of California · Ross v. Moffitt · Cass v. United States · In Re Guardianship of Angela McMenamy
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on a criminal appeal a motion for rehearing may be used, in the language of the Ross [ v. Moffitt ] case, as a "sword to upset [a] prior determination of guilt," but in practice it serves no such function. Statistical inquiry among the three districts of the Court of Appeals reveals that during the period roughly corresponding with the last reporting period, July 1, 1973, to June 30, 1974, some 298 criminal opinions were filed. Motions for rehearing or alternative motions for rehearing for transfer to the Supreme Court were filed in 71 of these 298 cases. Only two such motions were sustained. It is therefore clear, at least to us, that on a criminal appeal a motion for rehearing is merely an exhaustion device to seek discretionary review in the highest court of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he appeal stands as if it had never been heard and the opinion filed becomes a nullity as if it has never been written.” State v. Barnes, 517 S.W.2d 155 (Mo.App.1974) [19-2].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zweifel
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.