Balch v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably 114 Wis. 2d 358 - State Ex Rel. La Follette v. Stitt (1983), Huber v. Martin (1906)
26 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 Frederick v. Douglas County · Ludington v. Patton · Zinc Carbonate Co. v. First National Bank of Shullsburg · Northern Trust Co. v. Snyder · Land, Log & Lumber Co. v. McIntyre
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The apprehended judgments at law will, if collusive, be utterly harmless to these complainants, because, if collusive, the complainants can attack them anywhere and everywhere. A collusive judgment is open to attack whenever and wherever it may come in- conflict with -the rights or the interest of third persons. Fraud is not a thing that can stand, even when robed in a judgment.””
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.