Ball v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brewer v. Williams · Murphy v. State · Johnson v. State · Porter v. State · Richardson v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The following persons shall not be competent witnesses: * "k * * "k L Fifth Clergymen, as to confessions or admissions made to them in course of discipline enjoined by their churches." respective”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonham v. State
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.