Morris v. Governor’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2012
8 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 Allied American Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles · Givner v. Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City · Anderson v. Baker · Board of Supervisors of Elections v. Attorney General · Dutton v. Tawes
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t shall be sufficient in any case to print the legislative title, a brief summary of the contents or purpose of the proposed amendment or referendum....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contain a condensed statement in understandable language”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“using the tests of the sufficiency of legislative titles”
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.