Morris v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Bank of Kansas v. Davison (1993), State Ex Rel. Apt v. Mitchell (1965)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No alienation of the homestead by the husband alone, in whatever way it may be effected, is of any validity; nothing that ■ he alone can do, or suffer to be done, can cast the slightest cloud; upon the title to the homestead; .it remains absolutely free from all liens and incumbrances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It was not established for the benefit of the husband alone, but for the benefit of the family and of society — to protect the family from destitution, and society from the danger of her citizens becoming paupers.” (p. 244.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Shannon““Lands, tenements, goods and chattels not exempt by law, shall be subject to the payment of debts, and shall be liable to be taken on execution and sold as hereinafter provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hansen v. Jones
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.