Morrow v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 1284 · 1978
Citation profile
152 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Jones v. Diamond (1981), Iron Workers Local # 272 v. Bowen (1980)
152 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Hutto v. Finney · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only establishes a precedent for subsequent cases under the doctrine of stare decisis, but [also] establishes the law which other courts owing obedience to it must, and which it itself will, normally, apply to the same issues in subsequent proceedings in the same case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Bernard · In Re Walker“things decided by necessary implication as well as those decided explicitly.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)n any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of section ( ) . . . 1983 . . . of this title . . . , the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.