Morris v. Redak’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably 92 Ill. 2d 157 - Galowich v. Beech Aircraft Corp. (1982), 35 Colo. App. 317 - McNeill v. Allen (1975)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 McDonald v. Pless · The United States v. Thomas Reid and Edward Clements · Abraham Rich v. Charles Lambert · Wharton v. People · Knight v. Fisher
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]aking depositions of witnesses in preparation for trial is something in the nature of a luxury, and . . . one who avails himself of this procedure does so at his own expense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.