Ballard v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1968
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therein declared to be the plain meaning of the statute, that the lien is preserved as against those' persons only who are made parties to the suit prior to the expiration of the statutory period for enforcing it by action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Dill
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.