Morrison v. Goodspeed’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 40 district · 164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. (1984), Carpenter v. Donohoe (1964)
24 federal appellate · 40 district · 164 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 Sellar v. Clelland · Wheeler v. Dunn · Connecticut Fire Insurance v. Colorado Leasing, Mining & Milling Co. · Pullen v. Headberg · Kunzmann v. Petteys
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the concealment of a material existing fact that in equity and good conscience should be disclosed; (2) knowledge on the part of the party against whom the claim is asserted that such a fact is being concealed; (3) ignorance of that fact on the part of the one from whom the fact is concealed; (4) the intention that the concealment be acted upon; and (5) action on the concealment resulting in damages.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The test, therefore, of material inducement is not whether the plaintiff’s action would, but whether it might, have been different if the misrepresentation had not been made.’ ” (emphasis in original)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““At common law a conspiracy is defined as a combination between two or more persons to do a criminal or unlawful act or a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means. In criminal prosecutions, the gist of the action is the conspiracy. But in civil cases, the gist of the action is not the conspiracy, but the damages resulting from it, and unless a civil action in damages would lie against one of the conspirators, if the act was done by him alone, it will not lie against many acting in concert. The object of the criminal action is punishment against the wrongdoers. The object of the civil action is to recover any damages resulting from carrying out the conspiracy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGlasson v. Barger
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.