Ballard v. Spruill’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.2d 464 · 1934
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Empire Realty Co. v. Fleisher (1973), Sidney J. Brown v. James R. Coates, Marion E. Coates, and Margaret E. Brown (1958)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 20 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 Day v. Woodworth · Oelrichs v. Spain · Spruill v. Ballard · Burruss v. Hines · Flanders v. Tweed
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“almost universally recognized rule that [counsel fees] may be recovered in ... cases where the wrongful action complained of is characterized by ... gross fraud on the part of the defendant.”
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.