Ballard v. First National Bank of Birmingham’s Empirical Analysis
259 F.2d 681 · 1958
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1986
16 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 85 · 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. · Langnes v. Green · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co · Reed v. Allen · Becher v. Contoure Laboratories, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The doctrine of res judicata does not depend upon whether or not the prior judgment was right. It rests upon the finality of judgments as a matter of public policy, to the end that controversies once decided shall remain in repose.' * * * * * * "`It is a fundamental principle of jurisprudence that material facts or questions which were in issue in a former action, and were there admitted or judicially determined, are conclusively settled by a judgment rendered therein, and that such facts or questions become res judicata and may not again be litigated in a subsequent action between the same parties or their privies, regardless of the form the issue may take in the subsequent action * * *.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The estoppel under discussion is based upon the judgment of the Alabama Circuit Court as bounded and defined by the pleadings and as interpreted and construed by the Supreme Court of Alabama.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Wolvin
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.