Morris v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Findley v. Falise (1995), National Bank of Greece v. Savarika (1933)
23 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 Drake v. Crane · Williamson v. Grider · Bedford v. Bedford · Hendrix College v. Arkansas Townsite Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of the court's approval of this compromise is to decide the will contest pro tanto or to alter the terms of the will as executed by the testator and to vest the absolute title to the property and divide it according to the court's judgment of justice and expediency. We think the court possesses no such jurisdiction. * * *”
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.