Morgan v. Sylvester’s Empirical Analysis
231 F. 886 · 1916
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1970
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Morgan v. Devine · Ebeling v. Morgan · Munson v. McClaughry · Stevens v. McClaughry · O'Brien v. McClaughry
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is any merit in this contention, as to which we express no opinion, it was available to the ap-pellees in the trial court as a defense to the indictment, and afterwards, if necessary, by writ of error, from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. No such defense having been there made, and the point now raised not having been presented to or ruled upon by the trial court, it cannot now be availed of. A habeas corpus case cannot.be made to serve the purposes of a writ of error. To this well-known proposition of law no citation of authority is necessary.” Id. at 889 .”
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.