Morin v. Holliday’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1962
20 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 Blythe v. Ayres · Parvin v. Wimberg · State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Holliday · Humphries v. Davis · Bruce v. Bissell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... upon the death of an ancestor an `heir,' . .. is always appointed by law. The title is called into existence by the death of an ancestor, and its rights are governed by the law in force at the time of such death.... It being within the province of the legislature to determine the rules of inheritance... it [the legislature] may provide, ... as to who shall be heirs...."”
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.