Barnes v. Kissell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 2013
4 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 Frank v. Environmental Sanitation Management, Inc. · School District of Independence, No. 30 v. U.S. Gypsum Co. · State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Northeast Building Co. · Plater v. W. C. Mullins Construction Co. · Lawton v. Jewish Hospital of St. Louis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of rules providing for medical examinations in actions involving the physical condition of a party is to eliminate uncertainty concerning the medical aspects of the cause and permit the preparation of an intelligent and informed defense. This reveals “the exact and full truth concerning matters in controversy, in order that the court may bestow on litigants equal and exact justice.””
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.