Ball v. Melsur Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Lamb v. Geovjian (1996), Haynes v. Golub Corp. (1997)
69 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 Musser v. States · Boyd v. United States · Alamo National Bank v. Kraus · State v. Savo · Richard v. Richard
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] motion which is filed in violation of [Rule 40(e)(1)] shall not for this reason be denied”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Velardo v. Ovitt · Velardo v. Ovitt“These general principles are not ... limited to the 'employer-employee' relationship as defined in OSHA ..., though OSHA ... penalties for their violation would follow only where those statutes apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Absent evidence of an abuse of discretion, we defer to the trial court to determine issues of compromise as it is in a better position to determine the question.”
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.