Barnes v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Henderson v. Woolley (1994), Doe v. Shults-Lewis Child & Family Services, Inc. (1999)
4 federal appellate · 19 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 Mississippi v. Turner · Goller v. White · Kansas Gas & Electric Co. v. Brock, Secretary of Labor, Et Al. · Sireci v. Florida · 7 Ill. 2d 608 - Nudd v. Matsoukas
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike the victim in a criminal case, the plaintiff in a civil damage action is “on trial” in the sense that he or she is an actual party seeking affirmative relief from another party. Such plaintiff is a voluntary participant, with strong financial incentive to shape the evidence that determines the outcome. It is antithetical to principles of fair trial that one party may seek recovery from another based on evidence it selects while precluding opposing relevant evidence on grounds of prejudice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a personal injury or wrongful death action the court shall allow the admission into evidence of; (1) proof of collateral source payments, other than: (A) payments of life insurance or other death benefits; (B) insurance benefits for which the plaintiff or members of the plaintiffs family have paid for directly; or (C) payments made by the state or the United States, or any agency, instrumentality, or subdivision thereof, that have been made before trial to a plaintiff as compensation for the loss or injury for which the action is brought; (2) proof of the amount of money that the plaintiff is required to repay, including worker's compensation benefits, as a result of the collateral benefits received; and (8) proof of the cost to the plaintiff or to members of the plaintiffs family of collateral benefits received by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's family.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is only when the evidence is merely marginally relevant that the trial court has discretion to exelude it by balancing the probative value against the prejudicial impact.”
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.