Morris v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2016
17 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 Aetna Building Maintenance Co. v. West · Morey v. Paladini · Chamberlain v. Augustine · Davis v. Jointless Fire Brick Co. · E. S. Miller Laboratories, Inc. v. Griffin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.”
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.