638 F. Supp. 163 - Morrell v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2007
2 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Hannah v. Larche · Ewing v. Mytinger & Casselberry, Inc. · Christie v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 175. When Duress by Threat Makes a Contract Voidable "(1) If a party's manifestation of assent is induced by an improper threat by the other party that leaves the victim no reasonable alternative, the contract is voidable by the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] state cannot be held to have violated due process requirements when it has made procedural protection available and the [employee] has simply refused to avail himself of them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sec. 176. When a Threat is Improper "(1) A threat is improper if * * * "(d) the threat is a breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing under a contract with the recipient.”
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.