Morrison v. Bedell’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1983
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 Willard v. Warren · Bayard v. Smith · Allen v. Megguire
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a statute merely provides for increased damages or increased costs, the cause of action is not created by the statute; the remedy is not for a penalty or forfeiture. . . . There is little legal resemblance between such a statute modification of remedy for an existing cause of action and a case like this, of a forfeiture and penalty created by statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LaBarre v. Daneault
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.