Barnes v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1964 · most notably Wickersham v. Crittenden (1892), Barr v. New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad (1891)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the general rule, sanctioned by the policy of the law, that those who have the largest interest in corporations may control them, as they have the greatest interest that they shall be well managed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hey v. Dolphin
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.