Balter v. Ickes’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.2d 856 · 1937
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1975 · most notably Green v. Brophy (1940), Jones v. United Gas Improvement Corp. (1975)
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 16 U.S.C. § 461
Relies on William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Gregory v. Stetson · Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburg v. Smith · Ribon v. Railroad Companies · James Caldwell v. John Taggart and Mary His Wife
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is not a suit by one of the parties to the contract, seeking to annul it, but by third parties, asserting a somewhat questionable interest, who attempt to defeat the carrying out of the agreement. It follows, we think, that before any final decree adjudicating the issues can be entered, all the parties to the contract must be before the court and be given an opportunity to be heard.” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is the general rule in equity that, in order that a final and complete decree may be made, all persons ‘are .to be made parties who are legally or beneficially interested in the subject matter and result of the suit.’ Caldwell v. Taggart, 4 Pet. 190, 202 , 7 L.Ed. 828 ; Gregory v. Stetson 133 U.S. 579, 586 , 10 S.Ct. 422 , 33 L.Ed. 792 . * *”
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.