Morrison v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1935
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Wheeler v. Russell · Pitcher v. Livingston · Pritchard v. Brown · Loomis v. Bedel · Sprague v. Baker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever the covenantee realizes as a benefit from the conveyance to him will diminish the actual loss. If the title is made good by the statute of limitations, and there has been no actual disturbance or injury, the damages would be merely nominal. Though in these cases the cause of action accrues upon the execution of the deed, the damages are assessed with reference to the state of facts existing at the time when the assessment is made; and any facts occurring afterwards, even up to the actual assessment of the damages, tending to increase or diminish them, may be given in evidence and considered by the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mather v. Stokely
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.