Morrissey v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2014
4 federal appellate · 11 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 Ryus v. Gruble · State ex rel. Bell v. Yates · Bank of Hartford County v. Waterman · McMullen v. Winfield Building & Loan Ass'n · State ex rel. Cardin v. McClellan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Second. Within three years: An action upon a contract express or implied not in writing; an action upon a liability created by statute other than a forfeiture or penalty. 8”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An action upon the official bond or undertaking of an executor, administrator, guardian, sheriff, or any other officer, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An action for trespass upon real property; an action for taking, detaining or injuring personal property * * *”
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.