Morse v. . Goold’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1949
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Sturges v. Crowninshield · Solomon Etting v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · John Hawkins and William May v. Joshua Barney's Lessee · Call v. Hagger · Bridge v. Johnson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There, is no -universal principle of law that every part of the property of á debtor is liable to be seized for the payment of a judgment against him. . . . The question is, whether the law which prevailed when the contract was made has been so far changed that there does not remain a- substantial and reasonable mode of enforcing it in the ordinary .and regular course of justice. Taking, the mass of contracts and the situation and circumstances of debtors as they are ordinarily found to exist, no one could probably say that exempting the team and household furniture of a householder to the amount of $150 from levy or execution would directly affect the efficiency of remedies for the collection of debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Kearzey““Although the judgment of the Supreme Court * * * was affirmed by this court, yet, as the judges were equally divided in opinion, the determination cannot be regarded as a precedent, but the question must be regarded as entirely open.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may, if it thinks proper, direct, that the necessary implements of agriculture, or -the tools of a mechanic, or articles of necessity in household furniture, shall, like wearing-apparel, be not liable to execution on judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Kearzey
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.