Morrison v. Herrington’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1938
10 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 Lumpkin v. Collier
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here the plaintiff simply added a cause of action in equity to his ejectment count, and this he had a right to do. A plaintiff may unite in the same petition several causes of action, whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both, where they arise out of the same transaction and áre connected with the same subject of action. R. S. 1889, sec. 2040. Here the causes of action, one legal and the other equitable, arose out of transactions connected with the same subject of action. The parties being the same also, there was no misjoinder. Though the court could have granted full and complete relief on the equity cause of action, even to awarding a writ of possession, still it is quite common practice to join an ejectment count with an equity cause of action in such cases.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Sellers
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.