Barton v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1991
9 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 O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · King v. . Barnes · The People Ex Rel. Negus v. . Dwyer · People Ex Rel. Stearns v. . Marr · In re the Petition of Burrows
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On this appeal he insists that the contempt feature of the proceeding is criminal in its nature and should have been prosecuted in the name of the state by the county attorney or attorney-general. The primary object of the proceeding was to protect private rights; that is, to compel compliance with the decree of the court rendered in a civil action, and only incidentally to vindicate the authority of the law. While the punishment of such contempt takes on a criminal phase, it is really remedial in character and is sometimes designated as a civil contempt. . . .” (1. c. 728.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Davis · Goetz v. Goetz““He stated that his own maintenance required all of his earnings, but it would seem that the natural parental impulse would have prompted him to divide his earnings with his own child.” (p. 730.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Johnson
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.