Barrow v. Hunton’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 80 · 1878
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 23 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. (1909), Marshall v. Holmes (1891)
71 federal appellate · 23 district · 10 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 Gaines v. Fuentes · Dial v. Reynolds · Walter Dunn et al. v. Henry Clarke et al. · Bank v. Turnbull & Co.
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a supplementary proceeding so connected with the original suit as to form an incident to it, and substantially a continuance of it.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Tlie charader of the cases themselves is always open to examination for the purpose of determining whether, ratione materia;, the courts of the United States are competent, to take jurisdiction thereof. State rules on the subject cannot deprive them of It.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the 'common-law practice it would have been a motion to set aside the judgment for irregularity, or a writ of error coram volis.”
1 later decision 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.