Ballard v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
204 U.S. 241 · 1907
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 12 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. (1950), Shaffer v. Heitner (1977)
35 federal appellate · 12 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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 Huntington v. Attrill · Dent v. State of West Virginia · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al. · Davidson v. New Orleans · Bauman v. Ross
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of what concerns or may concern their real estate men usually keep informed, and on that probability the law may frame its proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murr v. Wisconsin
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.