In re Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2009
22 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on People v. Tinder & Smith · Cæsar v. State · Ex parte McCrary · State v. Johnston · Adams v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * All persons shall before conviction be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great; * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pett““The court are of opinion that since the abolition of capital punishment in this state, persons charged with murder are in all cases bailable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pett
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.