Ballantine v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Commonwealth v. Burdell (1955), Dale v. Thomas H. Temple Co. (1948)
52 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 Collins v. Cronin · Mead v. Conroe · McElroy v. Harnack · Merchants' & Manufacturers' National Bank v. Tinker · Newall v. Jenkins
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A `conspiracy to defraud' on the part of two or more persons means a common purpose supported by a concerted action to defraud, that each has the intent to do it, and that it is common to each of them, and that each understands that the other has that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disconnected circumstances, any one of which, or all of which, are more consistent, or just as consistent, with a lawful purpose as with an unlawful undertaking.”
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.