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← 64 VACIR 334 - Morrissey v. Benjamin

Morrissey v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 2008
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Ragan v. Woodcroft Village Apartments · Swann v. Marks · Rennolds v. Williams · Morrissey v. Jennings · Morrissey v. Rockingham Memorial Hospital

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Thus, what was appealed was the order dismissing the district court action without prejudice. Without the benefit of arguments on both sides of the issue, the court will not rule on whether Ragan’s holding applies to such dismissals, particularly in light of the fact that such dismissal was not a basis for defendant’s motion and the fact that the case will be disposed of on other grounds.”
    1 later decision 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.