State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. City of New York (1937), Simpson v. Tobin (1985)
51 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Brown v. Maryland · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Inhabitants of the Township of Montclair County of Essex v. Ramsdell · Leloup v. Port of Mobile
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No lawt shall embrace more than one subject which shall be expressed in its title.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the title of a legislative act expresses a general subject or purpose which is single, all matters which are naturally and reasonably connected with it, and all measures which will or may facilitate the accomplishment of the purpose so stated, are germane to its title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is sufficient if the language used in the title, on a fair construction, indicates the purpose of the legislature, so that making every reasonable intendment in favor of the act it may be said that the subject of the law is expressed in the title.”
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.