Morgan v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Sharon Floss Ryan's Family Steak Houses Inc et al v. Kyle Daniels (2000), Kovacs v. Freeman (1997)
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Montanus v. Buschmeyer · Cleveland Wrecking Co. v. Aetna Oil Co. · Rutherford v. Azarch
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of property and occupancy under an agreement for an indefinite term ordinarily creates a tenancy at will.” Morgan v. Morgan, 309 Ky. 581 , 218 S.W.2d 410, 411 (1949). .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shinkle v. Turner“must be binding on both or else it is binding on neither.”
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.