Morrison v. Morey’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Houck v. Little River Drainage District (1915), State ex rel. Applegate v. Taylor (1909)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 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 Emery v. San Francisco Gas Co. · Sears v. Cottrell · Farrar v. City of St. Louis · Lockwood v. City of St. Louis · Egyptian Levee Co. v. Hardin
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This law would be unconstitutional if its only purpose and effect was to improve the value of the lands of the persons in the district, but such is not the only object of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“exercises the prescribed functions of government in the district.”
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.