Ex Parte Morris and Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 605 · 1869
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1983 · most notably Northwestern Fuel Co. v. Brock (1891), Inland Credit Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross v. M/t Bow Egret, Her Engines, MacHinery Nets, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, in Rem, and Bow Egret Tanker Corporation, Her Owner, in Personam v. Constance R. Earle, Intervenor-Appellee-Cross v. Peter Kennard, Intervenor-Appellee-Cross (1977)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to cause restitution to be made to the appellants of whatever they have been compelled to pay under that decree.”
1 later decision 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.