Long v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984), Thompson v. Town of Fort Branch (1931)
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Barnes v. Perine · Hart v. Crow
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law, two actions lie for personal injuries to married women, infants, and servants. One by the husband, father, or master, for the loss of service, etc.; the other by the husband and wife, the infant, or servant, for the personal injury.” Long v. Morrison (1860), 14 Ind. 595, 596, 597 .”
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.