Castro v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Robert Devine v. City of Los Angeles (1906), Olivia Hopkins v. Frank Walker (1917)
7 federal appellate · 71 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Curtis v. Sutter · People ex rel. Love v. Center · Head v. Fordyce · Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis R. R. v. Oyler · Heeser v. Miller
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a written instrument, in respect to which there is a reasonable apprehension that if left outstanding it may cause serious injury to a person against whom it is void or voidable, may, upon his application, be so adjudged, and ordered to be delivered up or canceled.”
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.