Ballew v. Denson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Marchman v. NCNB Texas National Bank (1995), City of Raton v. Sproule (1967)
2 district · 27 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 Terry v. Humphreys · McDonald v. Padilla · Bounds v. Carner · Mares v. Kool · Middle Rio Grande Water Users Ass'n v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dist.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The primary purpose of the constitutional provision is to prevent fraud or surprise by means of concealed or hidden provisions in an act which the title fails to express. * * * This broad statement [the title to the act] clearly expresses its subject, the foreclosure of judgment liens. On reading the various provisions of the Act, we find disclosed a single subject, that pertaining to foreclosure of judgment liens."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * Jurisdiction of the person is acquired when one is personally served with process. Consequently, the judgment is not void for want of jurisdiction, nor is it open to collateral attack for alleged irregularities. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arthur v. Garcia“An act relating to the foreclosure of judgment Liens.”
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.