Morgan v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Yontef v. Yontef (1981), Birnbaum v. Ives (1972)
92 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 Appeal of Cohen From Board of Street Commissioners · Leitzes v. F. L. Caulkins Auto Co. · Fox v. City of South Norwalk · Caplan v. Arndt · Roberti v. Barbieri
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The case at bar presents another of countless instances where an unsuccessful litigant, still unconvinced, renews in this court his previous fruitless effort to discredit the evidence submitted by his opponent. Nothing in our law is more elementary than that the trier is the final judge of the credibility of witnesses and of the weight to be accorded their testimony."”
4 later decisions 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.