Michael v. Morfy’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2001
15 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.
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.
““When the question was directly involved in the issues raised, and the mind of the court was directly drawn to and distinctly expressed upon the subject, the decision cannot be said to be obiter dictum.””
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.