Morgan v. Kight’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2005
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Henkel v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Ry. Co. · United States v. Kolesar · Edwin Green, Jr., as Administrator of the Estate of Edwin Green, Deceased, and Mary Green v. American Tobacco Company · McWilliams Dredging Co. v. Department of Highways
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the better rule seems to require the court's approval before the expense is incurred[,]”
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.