Barnes v. . Mott’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1945 · most notably Memphis & Little Rock Railroad v. Dow (1887), Hanlon v. Doherty (1887)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sureties upon the appeal intervened as volunteers, and by their interposition got time for the principal debtor to the prejudice of the prior sureties and of the plaintiffs, whose lands were bound for the judgment, and they must be considered in equity as in the same condition as any other sureties, voluntarily undertaking for the payment of the judgment. Their obligation inured to the benefit not only of the creditors, but of any and all who had become before them in any way sureties for the payment of the debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Carli v. O'Brien
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.