Ball v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably In Re Estate of Carlton (1979), 114 So. 2d 645 - Alepgo Corporation v. Pozin (1959)
4 federal appellate · 51 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 Yates v. Ball · Williams, Et Ux. v. Home Owners Loan Corp. · State Ex Rel. Neill v. Lee
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * If there be any conflict between the law of the case as established by the first appeal with the law of the case as established by the second appeal then in that event the latter will control over the first."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Before ratification will be implied of an act of an unauthorized agent it must be made to appear that the principal has been fully informed and that he has approved.”
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.