Morris v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Melnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1988), Baros v. Kazmierczwk (1961)
2 federal appellate · 93 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 State v. Compton · Dowling v. L. H. Shattuck, Inc. · 65 Cal. App. 2d 795 - Ostertag v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Turrietta v. Wyche · Silva v. Traver
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]roof or admission of ownership creates a presumption that the driver of a-vehicle causing damages is the servant of the owner and using the vehicle in the master’s business[,] and this presumption is sufficient in the absence of evidence to the contrary to support a verdict. But it is only a presumption of law and not evidence. When contradictory evidence is introduced, the presumption disappears as though it had never existed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In all civil cases each party may challenge peremptorily five (5) jurors and no more, whether the plaintiffs or defendants shall be single or joined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... This evidence is undisputed and must be accepted as true... .”
2 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.