Morowitz v. Marvel’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 30 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mozzochi v. Beck (1987), Moore v. Hartman (2009)
21 federal appellate · 30 district · 15 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 18 Cal. 3d 335 - Goodman v. Kennedy · Savings Bank v. Ward · Norton v. Hines · 64 Ill. App. 3d 940 - Berlin v. Nathan · 56 Ill. App. 3d 815 - Lyddon v. Shaw
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n addition to ulterior motive, one must allege and prove that there has been a perversion of the judicial process and achievement of some end not contemplated in the regular prosecution of the charge.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“to compel the party affected by it to do some collateral thing which he could not legally and regularly be compelled to do.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“chilling and inhibitory effect on would-be litigants of justiciable issues.”
3 later decisions 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.