Morrill v. Morrill’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently February 1963 · most notably Mansfield v. Hill (1910), Pioneer Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State (1914)
3 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 United States v. Throckmorton · Cooper v. Reynolds · John Voorhees v. James Jackson · Kinnier v. . Kinnier · Mandeville v. . Reynolds
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A collateral attack on a judgment is any proceeding which is not instituted for the express purpose of annulling, correcting or modifying such decree. (12 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 177.) The fact that the parties are the same, and that the plaintiff seeks to attack the decree by the allegation of the reply cannot change the rule or make the attack any the less a collateral one.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““"We need not pursue the examination of this question any further; for the principle is so well settled that it is said to be an axiom of the law that, when a court has jurisdiction of the subject matter and the parties, its judgments cannot be impeached collaterally for errors of law or irregularity in practice. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This is undoubtedly a collateral attack. It is an attempt to impeach the decree in a proceeding not instituted for the express purpose of annulling, correcting, or modifying the decree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stadelman v. Miner
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.