Morrison v. Formby’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Dewberry v. Bank of Standing Rock (1933), Tebeau v. Ridge (1914)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 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 Lehman, Durr & Co. v. Collins · Weathers v. Spears · Steele v. Hanna
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The established foundation, on redemption, for the right to compensation for permanent improvements is title , meaning necessarily the repository of the legal title. Such is the principle underlying the analogy present in rulings made in the administration of section 5749.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malone v. Nelson“Any person offering to redeem must pay to the person in possession the value of all permanent improvements made by him after he acquired title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Malone v. Nelson
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.