Ball v. Cecil’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1984
10 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 North Western Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. Eddleman · Hall v. Alford · Collins v. Bauman · Roebuck v. Brown · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Dry Branch Coal Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled in this State, as well as most jurisdictions in America, that a third party for whose benefit a contract is made may maintain an action thereon however, he must have been a party to the consideration or the contract must have been made for his. benefit, and the mere fact that he will be incidentally benefited by the performance of the contract is not. sufficient to entitle him to enforce it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Long v. Reiss
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.