Morton v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Booker v. Everhart (1978), Parnell v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1965)
29 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 Ellington Ex Rel. Ellington v. Bradford · Deslauriers v. Senesac · Woolard v. Smith · Byrd v. . Patterson · Davis v. . Whitehurst
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The appointment of an agent does not divest the owner of his property rights. The agent is not the real party in interest and cannot maintain an action. Rental Co. v. Justice, 211 N.C. 54 , 188 S.E. 609 .” 259 N.C. at 700 , 131 S.E. 2d at 381 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booker v. Everhart
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.