Ballantyne v. Bower’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably People v. Shawyer (1924), Geraud v. Schrader (1975)
25 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 Montgomery v. State ex rel. Enslen · Gosman v. State ex rel. Schumacher · Shelby v. Alcorn · People ex rel. Marshall v. Leonard · State ex rel. Berge v. Lansing
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems reasonable, therefore, to regard them for some purposes at least as county officers, and to construe the term 'county officers’ in section 1224, prescribing the date when they shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their respective duties, as including justices of the peace, there being no other provision of law relating in that respect specifically to those officers.””
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.