Morgan v. Farrel’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Meehan v. Valentine (1892), Dolan v. Dolan (1928)
35 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is a partnership between two or more persons whenever such a relation exists between them that each is as to all the others . . . both principal and agent.”
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.