Murray v. Ballou’s Empirical Analysis
1815
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1982 · most notably Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd (1913), Colorado Coal & Iron Co. v. United States (1887)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the litigating parties are exempted from the necessity of taking any notice of a title so acquired. As to them, it is as if no such ti tie existed. Otherwise, such suits would be indeterminable; or, which would be the same in effect, it would be in the pleasure of one party at what period the suit should be determined.”
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.