In re Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Krauthoff v. Krauthoff (1915), Wakefield v. Thorp (1955)
60 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Buck v. Colbath · State ex rel. Dawson v. St. Louis Court of Appeals · Doyle v. Doyle · 10 N.J. Eq. 261 - Snover v. Snover · Stokes v. Stokes
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that, where one court has acquired jurisdiction over the parties and subject-matter of the suit, other courts will not interfere by the writ of habeas corpus, while the suit is pending and undetermined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Divorce and alimony, part of this jurisdiction, belonged to the ecclesiastical courts in former times in England, and the power to make awards as to the custody of children is a part of the ancient chancery jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Varsey v. Varsey
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.