Morrison v. District Court of United States for Southern District of New York’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1967
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G · Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Place v. Norwich & New York Transportation Co. · Smith v. Whitney · Norwich Company v. Wright
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.
“[t]he proceeding to limit liability is not an action against the vessel and her freight, except when they are surrendered to a trustee . . . .”
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.