Barela v. Beye’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2025
11 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 Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · National Labor Relations Board v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 23 · People v. Zapotocky · Climax Molybdenum Co. v. Walter · Resolution Trust Corp. v. Heiserman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wlhen an amendment follows closely on a judicial decision interpreting a statute, and the plain meaning of the amen-datory language manifests a modification of the statute as previously construed, we must assume that the General Assembly intended to change the law.”
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.