Morgan's heirs v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
15 U.S. 290 · 1817
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co (1938), William Shields v. Robert R Barrow (1854)
44 federal appellate · 8 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Hepburn & Dundas v. Auld · Milligan v. Milledge
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case two questions respecting the formal proceedings of the circuit court have been made by counsel for the appellant. The first is, that one of the complainants in the original suit having settled in the state of Kentucky, after this bill was filed, that court could no longer entertain jurisdiction of the cause, and ought to have dismissed the bill. We are all of opinion, that the jurisdiction having once vested, was not divested by the change of residence of either of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perna v. Coffey
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.