Morlan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1987
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Weber v. Wilson · Home Insurance v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Derrick v. Blazers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In the first place, the report was hearsay, and, secondly — the statement, ‘no improper driving indicated,’ was a pure conclusion on the part of the investigating officer dealing with the very question of negligence which the jury was impanelled to try. . . .” (p. 221.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGrath v. Mance
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.