Barnes v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Brown · St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Clark · Miller v. Wissert · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Garrett · Sisler v. Jackson
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.
“is the amount which will compensate for all detriment proximately caused thereby, whether it could have been anticipated or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“recoverable only as an incident to the recovery of compensatory damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“noncontractual obligation on the part of defendant to tell the truth”
1 later decision 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.