Morrell v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Kenney (1991), Doe v. Montgomery County Board of Elections (2008)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 The Harrisburg · Slate v. Zitomer · Doughty v. Prettyman · Crowe v. Houseworth · Snowhite v. State, Use of Tennant
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[0]ne who supplies a chattel for the use of another who knows its exact character and condition is not entitled to assume that the other will use it safely if the supplier knows or has reason to know that such other is likely to use it dangerously, as where the other belongs to a class which is notoriously incompetent to use the chattel safely, or lacks the training and experience necessary for such me, or the supplier knows that the other has on other occasions so acted that the supplier should realize that the chattel is likely to be dangerously used, or that the other, though otherwise capable of using the chattel safely, has a propensity of fixed purpose to misuse it.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he critical point is that a violation of § 6-305 of the Motor Vehicle Code requires proof that the owner authorized the use of a motor vehicle by a person whom he knew to be without a license, while the doctrine of negligent entrustment may be invoked only against the vehicle owner who knows or should have known that the use would involve an inordinate risk of physical harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We have heretofore held that the period within which an action for wrongful death must be brought is more closely analogous to a condition precedent than to the traditional concept of a statute of limitations, although it has been so characterized frequently in our cases, Smith v. Westinghouse Electric Corp., 266 Md. 52, 55-56 [1972], ...”Morrell v. Williams, 279 Md. 497, 505-506 (1977). See also Slate v. Zitomer, 275 Md. 534 (1975), cert. denied, Gasperich v. Church, 423 U.S. 1076 (1976).”
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.