Barr v. Bernhard’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University (1997), Helena Chemical Co. v. Wilkins (2001)
11 federal appellate · 97 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 Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation · Swilley v. Hughes · Lowe v. Texas Tech University · Perkins v. State · Koy v. Schneider
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No professional employee of any school district within this state shall be personally liable for any act incident to or within the scope of the duties of his position of employment, and which act involves the exercise of judgment or discretion on the part of the employee, except in circumstances where professional employees use excessive force in the discipline of students or negligence resulting in bodily injury to students.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ne provision will not be given a meaning out of harmony or inconsistent with other provisions, although it might be susceptible of such a construction if standing alone.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Downing v. Brown · Pulido v. Dennis“personal injuries or death when proximately caused by the negligence or wrongful act or omission of any officer or employee acting within the scope of his employment or office arising from the operation or use of a motor-driven vehicle and motor driven equipment ... or death or personal injuries so caused from some condition or use of tangible property, real or personal....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.