Morrell v. Quarles’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1977
14 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Hatch v. Mann · Symmes v. Frazier · Ex parte Watson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]f one offer a reward, and another, knowing of the offer, shall do the lawful thing proposed to be rewarded, there is a contract supported by a consideration; and that the assent to the contract is given by the party claiming the reward, when he performs the designated act. . . ” [Emphasis supplied.] (Morrell v. Quarles, 35 Ala. 544, 550 (1860))”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gadsden Times v. Doe
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.