Ball v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Cox v. Colossal Cavern Company (1925), Hoskins v. Northern Lee Oil & Gas Co. (1922)
2 federal appellate · 27 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be noted at once that under this sale not only would the rights of these infant co-tenants in the minerals themselves be disposed of, but their surface rights would be seriously interfered with; for they would be forced nolens volens to part with their ownership of the timber under 12 inches in diameter, a property which they might be wholly unwilling to sell in their moiety of the entire property.””
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.