Ballard v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 1568 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Simpson v. Rowan (1995), O'Neill
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · O'Shea v. Littleton · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“future injunctive ... relief [was] unavoidably ... decided against the backdrop of pending state proceedings,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without hope of obtaining a valid conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Strain
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.