Morris v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1989
14 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 State v. Harden · In the Matter of the Application of Henry W. Cooper · People ex rel. Shumway v. Bennett · City of Galesburg v. Hawkinson · Kayser v. Trustees of Bremen
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature has granted that right [to form municipal corporations] to all of the people of the state, who put themselves within the conditions annexed. What the court determines is whether the people desiring to form such a corporation have put themselves within those conditions ... Having ascertained that, the court awards a certificate of incorporation, just as the secretary of state issues the certificate of incorporation to a joint stock company ... The court has no initiative. Its sole power is to veto ....””
2 later decisions 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.