Morris v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2015
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 A. J. Chromy Construction Co. v. Commercial Mechanical Services, Inc. · Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co. · In re the Discipline of Ray · Dairyland Insurance v. Implement Dealers Insurance · Nordby v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an attempt to avoid the mechanical and sometimes unrealistic function of * * * competing rules of construction the Minnesota Supreme Court adopted the reasonable expectations doctrine [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ambiguity may result from terms in a policy that are susceptible to more than one meaning. Ambiguity may also result from irreconcilable conflict between terms or provisions within the contract.”
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.