Morris v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2014
3 federal appellate · 13 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 K-B Corp. v. Gallagher · Crandall v. Woodard · COMMUNITY MOTOR BUS CO., INC. v. Windley · Dawson v. Fusco's Auto Service, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]ross negligence is that degree of negligence which shows indifference to others as constitutes an utter disregard of prudence.... It must be such a degree of negligence as would shock fair minded persons.. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'it is the element of lawful possession, however created, and duty to account ... that creates the bailment, regardless of whether or not such possession is based on contract in the ordinary sense.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.