Balfour v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2023
1 district · 6 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 Ledbetter v. Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission · Riffe Petroleum Co. v. Great Nat. Corp., Inc. · State Ex Rel. Commissioners of Land Office v. Hall · Balfour v. Jacobs · Fourth National Bank of Tulsa v. Appleby
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be enforced by civil action in the district court of the county where the lien was filed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“designed to insure that physicians are paid for their services once their patients are compensated for their injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The expiration of the one year time limit of § 46(C) does not bar a timely refiling of a lien. Rather, the time limit operates only to prevent a physician from enforcing a particular lien after the first anniversary of its filing. A § 46 physician’s lien filed before the injured patient has received any proceeds in settlement of her personal injury claim and before the statute of limitations has run on the underlying obligation is valid and enforceable if suit is brought to enforce it within one year. This is true regardless of whether the same services or amounts were included in a previously filed but unenforced lien.”
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.