Ball v. Tolman’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1962
2 federal appellate · 11 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 People v. Greene · First Natl. Bank of San Luis Obispo v. Henderson · Anderson v. Byrnes · Ball v. Tolman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mr. Sutherland, in his Statutory Construction (section 166), states that the effect of the repeal of a penal Statute is to prevent any prosecution, trial, or judgment for any offense committed against it while it was in force, unless there is a saving clause in the repealing act, and that if a penal statute is repealed pending an appeal, and before the final action of the appellate court, it will prevent an affirmance of a conviction, and the prosecution mu'st be dismissed or the judgment reversed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. García
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.