Ball v. Breed’s Empirical Analysis
294 F. 227 · 1923
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1957
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Mexican Cent Ry Co v. Rinkney · Old Dominion Copper Mining Smelting Company v. Frederick Lewisohn · Tilton v. Cofield · Davis v. Las Ovas Co. · Gleason v. Thaw
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.
““If, then, there was a fraud, it was not against the corporation, and a cause of action, if any, is personal to the purchasers of the stock. The fraud, if any, is what has been called a subsidiary fraud not affecting the corporation.””
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.