People v. . Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1979 · most notably Rushing v. Hooper-McDonald, Inc. (1974), United States v. Long Cove Seafood, Inc. (1978)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPeople v. Morrison
Relationships
Relies on The People v. . Crapo · People v. . Cascone · Van Bokkelen v. . Berdell · Fleet v. Hegehan · Decker v. Fisher
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When clams or oysters are reclaimed from nature and transplanted to a bed where none grew naturally, and the bed is so marked out by stakes as to show that they are in the possession of a private owner, they are personal property and may become the subject of larceny. Although in the nature of ferae naturae to which a qualified title may be acquired by possession, when reclaimed and transplanted, they need not be confined, for, as they cannot move about, they cannot get away, even when placed in the water, as they must be in order to live.””
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.