Hurst v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2009
19 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 Covington Virginian, Inc. v. Woods · Central State Hospital v. Wiggers · Burks v. Three Hills Corp. · Forrest v. Hawkins · Godlewski v. Gray
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o warrant, motion or other pleading shall be dismissed by reason of a mere defect, irregularity or omission in the proceedings in the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“held that the failure to comply with rules governing appeals precludes `the exercise of the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the proceedings'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.