Ballard v. Mook’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2013
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
Relies on Canter v. Koehring Company · 511 So. 2d 446 - Miller v. East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Dept. · 390 So. 2d 842 - Hibernia Nat. Bank of New Orleans v. Bolleter · Ward v. Board of Levee Com'rs of Orleans Levee Dist. · Pizanie v. Gauthreaux
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“probable cause to file suit is a question which depends upon particular facts as perceived by the person bringing the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.