Morrison v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1974
24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Tappan v. Evans · Coolidge v. Melvin · Smith v. Smith · Albee v. Webster · Jackson ex dem. Van Buren v. Myers
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence, we think, very clearly shows that the property conveyed to the son was worth more than the father’s debt to the son and daughter by a substantial amount. And the provision for the father’s support and that of his wife during life, indicates that the parties supposed it to be worth more. The conveyance then must be regarded as with a trust to the grantor, to secure his maintenance; and that being a substantial part of the consideration, it must be regarded as fraudulent and void as against creditors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masterson v. Ogden
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.