Morse v. McWhorter’s Empirical Analysis
290 F.3d 795 · 2002
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably PR Diamonds, Inc. v. Chandler (2004), United States v. Community Health Systems, Inc. (2007)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Foman v. Davis · Monette v. Electronic Data Systems Corp. · Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. · Chill v. General Electric Co. · Adams v. Gould Inc.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the opposing party by virtue of allowance of the amendment, futility of the amendment, etc.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“placing an unwarranted burden on the court,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fraudulent, material misstatements or omissions in connection with the sale or purchase of a security.”
5 later decisions 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.