Morrison v. Rossignol’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 43 Cal. 2d 280 - Ablett v. Clauson (1954), Agard v. Valencia (1870)
3 district · 22 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity is always chary of its power to decree specific performance, and will withhold the exercise of its jurisdiction in that respect, ■unless there is such a degree of certainty in the terms of the contract as will enable it at one view to do complete equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Keith
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.