Morris v. Waldrop’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Union Central Life Ins. v. State Ex Rel. Whetstone (1933), Messer v. City of Birmingham (1942)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Gunter v. Townsend · Alabama Public Service Commission v. Mobile Gas Co. · Lester v. Jacobs · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Shikle · Manchuria S. S. Co. v. Harry G. G. Donald & Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . They were at such time without the lien of an execution or that of a duly registered judgment. . . .” ( 213 Ala. at page 439 , 105 So. at page 177 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Gay
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.