Morgan v. O'NEIL’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2017
15 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 White v. Winchester Land Development Corp. · Pike v. George · Steele v. Stanley · Johnson v. Coleman · Crowder v. American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shareholders may be liable for a corporate debt either by piercing the corporate veil or by statutory authorization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there must be maintained some minimum standard in the art of pleading which must be met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCollum v. Garrett“a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCollum v. Garrett
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.