Morris v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 1032 · 1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Barfield v. Brierton (1989), Peppers v. Coates (1989)
7 federal appellate ·
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 Coppedge v. United States · Gilliam 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“than a repetition of his conclusional allegations, summary judgment for the [movant is] not only proper but required.”
5 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.