Barry v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Temporomandibular Joint Implants Products Liability Litigation Temporomandibular Joint Implant Recipients v. The Dow Chemical Company, Duluth News-Tribune Division of Northwest Publications Inc v. Mesabi Publishing Company (1996)
35 federal appellate · 2 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Delaware v. New York · Sanders Confectionery Products Inc. v. Heller Financial, Inc. · Allstate Insurance v. Maleski · Amerinet, Inc. v. Xerox Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will consider only evidentiary materials that were before the trial court at the time the summary judgment ruling was made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough the later discovery of additional fraud does not invalidate the release of a mature fraud claim, see Bellefonte Re Ins. Co. v. Argonaut Ins. Co., 757 F.2d 523, 527 (2d Cir.1985), the same principle does not apply when a plaintiff who justifiably relies on fraudulent information is induced to sign a release for fraud claims that she did not know existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a contract's terms are ambiguous, the court will consider extrinsic evidence, and construction of the contract becomes a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.