Morse v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
150 U.S. 156 · 1893
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1937 · most notably Ward v. Cochran (1893), Colvin v. City of Jacksonville (1895)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Michigan Insurance Bank v. Eldred · Hume v. Bowie · Muller et al. v. Ehlers · Glaspell v. Northern Pac R Co
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““plaintiff’s counsel had made various efforts to have counsel of defendant Anderaou present and before me, so that a bill of exceptions might be prepared and signed; lrat, owing to sickness of family of counsel, this has been impracticable until the bill of exceptions now signed by me as of April, 3899.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dalton v. Gunnison
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.