Morris v. Mosley’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2003
4 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 Fogarty v. Davis · State v. Wipke · 232 Mo. App. 597 - Ex Parte Tomlinson v. French Inst. of Notre Dame · Thompson v. Sanders · Zellars v. National Surety Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither the rule itself, nor the reading of the rule into the bond, constitutes a change in the substantive rights of the principal and surety or affects the right of appeal. Procedural rights only, and not substantive rights, are affected by these rules.””
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.