Barker v. Swenson’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1972
5 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 5526. 15 "There shall be commenced and prosecuted within two years after the cause of action shall have accrued, and not afterward, all actions or suits in court of the following description: 16 * * * * * 17 "2. Actions for detaining the personal property of another, and for converting such property to one's own use. 18 "3. Actions for taking or carrying away the goods and chattels of another. 19 "4. Actions for debt where the indebtedness is not evidenced by a contract in writing. 20 "* * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is said that a land certificate may be sold under execution, or in course of an administration, and that the right to acquire land under it will pass to the purchaser, and this is true; but it is upon the theory that the certificate symbolizes the right, which is the thing sold in such cases, as is it when the owner of such certificate makes a voluntary sale.””
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.