Morris v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 545 · 1947
Citation profile
138 federal appellate · 24 district · 250 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 612 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Coit Independence Joint Venture v. Federal Savings & Loan Insurance (1989), Underwriters National Assurance Company v. North Carolina Life and Accident and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (1982)
138 federal appellate · 24 district · 250 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. · Prudential Ins Co v. Benjamin · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 612 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A judgment of a court having jurisdiction of the parties and of the subject matter operates as res judicata, in the absence of fraud or collusion, even if obtained upon a default'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The establishment of the existence and amount of a claim against the debtor in no way disturbs the possession of the liquidation court, in no way affects title to the property, and does not necessarily involve a determination of what priority the claim should have.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The Acts of the legislature of any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or copies thereof, shall be authenticated by affixing the seal of such State, Territory, or Possession thereto. "The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any such State, Territory or Possession, or copies thereof, shall be proved or admitted in other courts within the United States and its Territories and Possessions by the attestation of the clerk and seal of the court annexed, if a seal exists, together with a certificate of a judge of the court that the said attestation is in proper form. "Such Acts, records and judicial proceedings or copies thereof, so authenticated, shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States and its Territories and Possessions as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State, Territory or Possession from which they are taken." [Emphasis supplied.] 28 U.S.C. 1738.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.