Prude v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1978
9 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The contract may not, in truth, have been a sale because the price was not fixed and certain; but there is a reality about it. The effect of it was to place Lucius in possession and control of the property under an apparent title, in consideration of Lucius settling for Moms a certain debt. “It was one of those innominate contracts closely resembling a pledge. After Lucius settled this debt by paying Johnson $1,125. Morris certainly could not have demanded the return of the property without reimbursing Lucius this sum, and the plaintiff, as a creditor of Morris, stands in no more favorable position. Lucius is entitled to reimbursement for the amount he has paid.””
1 later decision 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.