Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2004
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Illinois Central Ry. Co. v. Houchins · Chicago Veneer Co. v. Jones · Alexander's ex'x v. Bradley
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We know as a practical matter that no person lives or dies according to the pattern of a statistical table but in order to find a rule which, over a period of years and in a great number of cases, will more closely conform to the standards of justice, the adoption of a mortality table has been believed to be the best method of reaching general justice for all even though, occasionally and individually, an injustice is done. But if the initial acceptance of this table was had because of the desire to obtain the best evidence of the common experience of mankind, then it is equally incumbent upon the courts to seek and obtain those mortality tables that best reflect that experience.”
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.