United States v. Ballin’s Empirical Analysis
144 U.S. 1 · 1892
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 52 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Raines v. Byrd (1997), Gravel v. United States (1972)
76 federal appellate · 52 district · 114 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Field v. Clark · Gardner v. The Collector · Brown v. District of Columbia · Seeberger v. Cahn
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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ignore constitutional restraints or violate fundamental rights,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The two houses of Congress are legislative bodies representing larger constituencies. Power is not vested in any one individual, but in the aggregate of the members who compose the body, and its action is not the action of any separate member or number of members, but the action of the body as a whole ....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“". . . when a quorum is present , the act of a majority of the quorum is the act of the body." (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ohio v. Cox · (1974)
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.