Barnard v. Wassermann’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Jau-Fei Chen v. Stewart (2004), Soter's, Inc. v. Deseret Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1993)
28 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Edwards v. Arizona · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital · Petrowski v. Hawkeye-Security Insurance
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Among the[ inherent powers of the trial court] are the power ... to make, modify, and enforce rules for the regulation of the business before the court, ... to recall and control its process....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffith v. Griffith · A.S. v. R.S.“[Clourts of general jurisdiction ... possess certain inherent power to impose monetary sanctions on attorneys who by their conduct thwart the court's scheduling and movement of cases through the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Miles · Maxwell v. Woodall“continuing, and plenary, and exists independently of statute or rules of equity, and ought to be assumed and exercised as the exigencies and necessity of the case require, not only to maintain and protect the integrity and dignity of the court, to secure obedience to its rules and process, and to rebuke interference with the conduct of its business, but also to control and protect its officers, including attorneys.”
2 later decisions 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.