Morrow v. Drumwright’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 60 Tenn. App. 129 - Richardson v. Johnson (1969), Tipton v. Smith (1979)
22 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 Bass v. State · Briscoe v. Allison · Cummins v. Woody · Ross v. State · 29 Tenn. App. 438 - Northcross v. Taylor
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Also, the right of action is given first to the husband. Therefore, S. B. Morrow as administrator was neither a proper nor a necessary party and so technically there was a misjoinder in this respect. [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lamar v. Stowers
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.