Morris v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1996
18 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 Brown v. Hogan · Axe v. Potts · Russo v. Hochschild Kohn & Co. · Enterprise Manufacturing Co. v. Oppenheim, Oberndorf & Co. · Powichrowski v. Sicinski
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In America it is generally (though not universally) held that a contract with a tenant in common cannot be specifically enforced against one or more when the contract is in the name of all, but only some sign. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carr v. Ott““In the circumstances of the case at bar we think plaintiffs, by their conduct, had elected to take all the farm or none.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.