Morrison v. Land’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 1069 - Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995), Monarco v. Lo Greco (1950)
2 federal appellate · 96 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 Glock v. Howard & Wilson Colony Co. · Owens v. McNally · McCabe v. Healy · Burke v. Maguire · Prince v. Lamb
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An ordinary action at law for breach of the contract would bring him the very thing to which he is entitled under the allegations of his complaint—afford him full and adequate relief. In such an action, the measure of damages would have been the value of the property agreed to be bequeathed, for that was the amount in which he was damaged by the breach. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exclusive jurisdiction of equity to grant relief by way of specific performance of a contract will be exercised only in those cases where the legal remedy of compensatory damages is insufficient under the circumstances of the case, in the opinion of the court, to do complete justice between the parties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“full and adequate and does complete justice”
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.