Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College, Inc., a Body Corporate (1964), Custody of a Minor (1978)
32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Reynolds v. States · People Ex Rel. Wallace v. Labrenz · Lohmeyer v. St. Louis Cordage Co. · In Matter of Badger
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.
““Where proposed treatment is dangerous to life, or there is a difference of medical opinion as to the efficiency of a proposed treatment or where medical opinion differs as to which of 2 or more remedies should be followed, requiring the exercise of sound discretion, the opinion of the parent should not be lightly overridden.””
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.