Hatcher v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1995
5 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 Vickers v. Philip Carey Co. · Irwin v. Irwin · Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company v. Jones · Otis Elevator Company v. Melott · Wat Henry Pontiac, Inc. v. Pitcock
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have had previous occasions to refer to the jury’s perceptive powers (citing cases). Whether the verdict is sufficiently supported by the evidence is usually the best criterion of whether the complaining party has suffered prejudice from the court’s instructions; ⅝ ⅛ ⅜ »”
2 later decisions 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.