Morris v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Clulow v. Oklahoma (1983), Alexander v. Oklahoma (2004)
12 federal appellate · 12 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 Waugh v. Guthrie Gas, Light, Fuel & Improvement Co. · Herron v. Miller · 116 N.J. Eq. 446 - Noel v. Teffeau · Kansas City Life Ins. Co. v. Nipper · Liberty Nat. Bank of Weatherford v. Lewis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 190, Comp.St.1921, providing that, where an action which has been commenced within due time fails otherwise than on its merits, a new action may be commenced within one year after such failure, refers to actions which have been commenced within this state within due time, and have failed otherwise than upon the merits; but the statute has no application to actions which have been commenced within other states and have failed otherwise than upon the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was no concealment of the cause of action. There was nothing necessary to establish a cause of action that could have been discovered later except who was the driver of the vehicle involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clulow v. Oklahoma
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.