Ballentyne v. Wickersham’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory (1944), Boswell v. State (1973)
1 district · 150 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 The People v. . McCann · Division of Howard County · State v. Miller · Shields v. Bennett · Rogers v. Torbut
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the title of a bill may be very general, and need not specify every clause in the statute. Sufficient if they are all referable, and cognate to ^ the subject expressed. And when the subject is expressed in general terms, every thing which is necessary to make a complete enactment in regard to it, or which results as a complement of the thought contained in the general expression, is included in, and authorized by it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Johnson
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.