Morgan v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Burns v. Bastien (1935), Bonner v. Oklahoma Rock Corp. (1993)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Rich v. Doneghey · Kolachny v. Galbreath · Frank Oil Co. v. Belleview Gas & Oil Co. · Barker v. Campbell-Ratcliff Land Co. · Duff v. Keaton
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Equity will, by reason of the precedent unqualified ownership of the fee, imply such a privilege as an incident to the right retained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newbern v. Gould
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.