Morris v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Henry v. State (1974), Holman v. Kelly Catering, Inc. (1994)
33 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 Wilhelm v. State of Maryland Traffic Safety Commission · Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc. v. Scherpenisse · Schiller v. B. O.R.R. Co. · Blake Construction Co. v. Wells · Richardson v. Home Mutual Life Insurance
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he trial court instructed the jury that the State Industrial Accident Commission had decided that the appellee was wholly dependent upon the decedent at the time of his death, that decision was prima facie correct, and the burden of proof was on the appellants to show by a fair preponderance of affirmative evidence that the appellee was not [wholly] dependent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decision of the Commission is, of course, prima facie correct and the burden of proof is upon the party attacking the same. Code, Art. 101, § 56(c). This means nothing more than that, if the mind of the trier of facts is in equal balance on the evidence in the record, the finding of the Commission should be affirmed.” (Emphasis supplied) (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For the practical working of such a scheme there does not seem to be any method so appropriate as the submission of issues in a manner analogous to the practice in cases sent from the Orphans’ Court or from courts of equity, where it is desired that a jury shall pass on the facts.”
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.