Morris v. Biggs & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1986
9 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 Silberberg v. Pearson · Murray Co. v. Simmons · Lubbock Nat. Bank v. Nickels · David v. Roe · Crenshaw v. Staples
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First Point: The Court erred as a matter of law in limiting the appellant to recovery as specifically prayed for because, under a generalprayer for relief, a party is entitled to recover such relief as the pleadings and the evidence warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.