Morris v. Dame's’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson (1988), Cooley v. Baker (1950)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 Psota v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Cooper v. Agee · Boggs v. Plybon · Dicaprio v. . N.Y.C.R.R. Co. · Bobos Ex Rel. Enders v. Krey Packing 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * These provisions of the statute create a general duty on the part of drivers of motor vehicles to give the prescribed signal before making a left or right turn at a road intersection. But a failure to give the signal cannot be actionable negligence as to any particular person unless the facts and circumstances of the case are such that the duty to give the signal has become a particular duty owing to that person as an individual. 7”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not used with reference to the law of torts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Puent v. Dickens
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.