Morrison v. Steiner’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 404 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 412 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Bank of Am., N.A. v. Kuchta (Slip Opinion) (2014), Pratts v. Hurley (2004)
6 federal appellate · 404 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 Kilbreath v. Rudy · 136 Ohio St. 271 - New York, Chicago & St. Louis Rd. Co. v. Matzinger · 152 Ohio St. 347 - Fireproof Construction, Inc. v. Brenner-Bell, 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 412 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Subject-matter jurisdiction of a court connotes the power to hear and decide a case upon its merits' and 'defines the competency of a court to render a valid judgment in a particular action.'”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage“[It] defines the competency of a court to render a valid judgment in a particular action.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“county in which the defendant conducted activity that gave rise to the claim for relief”
5 later decisions 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.