Morris v. Howard Research & Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Medical Waste Associates, Inc. v. Maryland Waste Coalition, Inc. (1992), 84 Wis. 2d 504 - Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc. v. Public Service Commission (1978)
44 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 Bryniarski v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals · Town of Somerset v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals · DuBay v. Crane · Brashears v. Lindenbaum · Hertelendy v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Bearing in mind that the format for proceedings before administrative agencies is intentionally designed to be informal so as to encourage citizen participation, we think that absent a reasonable agency or other regulation providing for a more formal method of becoming a party, anyone clearly identifying himself to the agency for the record as having an interest in the outcome of the matter being considered by that agency, thereby becomes a party to the proceedings.’ ””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even if we accept [the appellee's arguments] as completely valid, we, nevertheless, agree with [the appellant's] contention that it would be equally unfair to bind him by court proceedings of which he had no formal knowledge. This becomes obvious when it is realized that the entire scheme of the rules adopted by this Court for dealing with appeals from administrative agencies ... contemplates notice to, and an opportunity to be heard by, all parties to the proceedings before the agency. It is, in our opinion, no more onerous in this situation than in any other judicial proceeding to require that a party seeking relief from a court be sure that all parties he seeks to bind by the decision are properly before the court prior to the time he proceeds to obtain a final judgment against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`give written notice by mail or otherwise of the filing of the appeal to every party to the proceeding before [the agency.]'”
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.