Barnes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably In Re Chavez (2001), In Re Ramirez (1998)
32 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 Haines v. Kerner · Womack v. Berry · Ayres v. Canales · State Ex Rel. Curry v. Gray · Stoner v. Massey
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion is properly filed and pending before a trial court, the act of giving consideration to and ruling upon that motion is a ministerial act, and mandamus may issue to compel the trial judge to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Shulman
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.