Carver v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably ML-Lee Acquisition Fund, L.P. v. Deloitte (1997), Holtzscheiter v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc. (1998)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 18 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 Harris v. Nashville Trust Co. · Riley v. Askin & Marine Co. · Brown v. Mack · Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Hendricks · Mann v. Life & Casualty Ins.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a rule of the common law, which has long been followed in this State unless changed by statute, that a personal action ex delicto dies with the person [citations omitted]. This principle is set forth in the old maxim ‘actio personalis moritur cum persona.’ This common law rule has been amended by legislative act in various instances, to cover certain designated actions for tort. Among others we find [Section 15-5-90], wherein it is provided that cause of action for injuries and trespasses upon real estate, and injuries to the person or personal property, shall survive. It will be noted that the General Assembly was careful in not including actions for injury to character.” 213 S.C. at 202 , 48 S.E.2d at 816 (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No matter what a person may write, if it is not published, there is of course no liability, since no one is injured.”
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.