Morris v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Cave v. Cave (1970), C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank (1979)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Hammond v. Hopkins · Mosley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Union Land & Grazing Co. v. Arce · Turner v. Sanchez · Eager v. Belmore
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Conduct of defendant giving rise to the situation for which plaintiff seeks a remedy; (2) Delay by plaintiff in asserting his rights, though he has notice or knowledge of defendant’s conduct and has had the opportunity to institute suit; (3) Lack of knowledge or notice on defendant’s part that plaintiff would assert the right on which he bases his suit; and (4) Injury or prejudice to the defendant should plaintiff be accorded relief or the suit is not held to be barred.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * ‘The effect of redemption will not be a transfer of the inchoate title of the purchaser at tax sale, but will be to extinguish the tax sale, * * *. As to all other persons who might have had a right to redeem, the redemption is in their interest, and consequently they are not adversely affected.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.