Hayes v. . Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1959
3 federal appellate · 16 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it had appeared that when the words were spoken they were accompanied with such an explanation as would make it clear that they referred to an inno.cent transaction, or to a transaction which, in law, could not have constituted larceny, the motion for a nonsuit should have keen granted. So if it had appeared that all of the persons who were present understood from the facts which they knew, or had otherwise learned, that the words referred to a transaction which could not, in law, constitute larceny, the same result would follow.””
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.