Ball v. Hail’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 61 Ark. App. 198 - Continental Express v. Harris (1998), Dunn v. Dunn (1973)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Terry Dairy Co. v. Parker · Mullins v. Ritchie Grocer Company · Rex Oil Corporation v. Crank · Mo. Pac. Rd. Co., Baldwin, Trustees v. Brewer · Helena Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Bell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants vigorously assail the judgment as. not being supported by any substantial evidence. They argue most forcefully that the evidence which they have offered is undisputed and that there was no question of fact to be determined in fixing liability. The positive statements, repeated several times perhaps to give emphasis, are that. Mr. Ball attended the meeting of the salesmen of the Rider Motor Company and that after the meeting adjourned late Saturday night, Mr. Ball’s employment for the day, or duties thereof were ended and that it was after this closing of the day’s business that the accident occurred and that on account of. that alleged fact, which it is contended was undisputed, the Rider Motor Company bases its contention that it was not liable. • # # “ * * * We are forced to decide appellants’ conclusions are not arrived at upon sound legal premises. “Under the circumstances above stated there are certain presumptions that enter into the consideration of the evidence. Mr. Ball and Mr. Rider are the sole or only witnesses testifying for appellants. They are interested parties, both defendants in suit and on that account their' testimony will not be taken as undisputed.*** “There was also another presumption present in this case that arises out of Mr. Ball’s employment by Mr. Rider and the fact that he was driving or operating Mr. Rider’s car at the time of the accident. That presumption is that the servant was acting for the master while he was operating- the mas”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. York v. Brummett
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.