Morse v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2010
6 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 Staples v. Littlefield · In re Allowance of Last Will of Reed · Parsons v. Copeland · Bronson · Williams v. Coombs
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The well-settled rule is that the action of commissioners in partition will not be set aside on the ground of unequal allotments except in extreme cases as where the partition appears to have been made upon wrong principles, or where it is shown by very clear and decided preponderance of evidence that the partition is grossly unequal.” 150 Me. at 177 , 107 A.2d at 498 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eaton v. Hackett
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.