Ball v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2004
2 district · 14 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 Rogers v. Attorney General · Miller v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. City of Quincy · Old Colony Trust Associates v. Hassett · President of Middlebury College v. Central Power Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] gift may be conditioned upon the donee's performance of specified obligations or the happening of a certain event [and that if] the obligation is not performed, the donor is entitled to restitution”
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.