Colfer v. Ballantyne’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1985
1 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Zugsmith v. Mullins
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reference to Marlene Dietrich and to race horses was not relevant to the issue as to plaintiffs’ damages and did not call upon the jurors to exercise judgment and experience in connection with the ordinary everyday affairs of life in evaluating testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNally v. Eckman
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.