Morris v. Merchant’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably C.R. Anthony Co. v. Loretto Mall Partners (1991), Mascarenas v. Jaramillo (1991)
67 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 Franciscan Hotel Co. v. Albuquerque Hotel Co. · Latta v. Harvey · Scott v. Brown · Southern California Petroleum Corp. v. Royal Indemnity Co. · Brundage v. KL House Construction Company
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The function of an appellate court is to correct an erroneous result, and it will not correct errors which, even if corrected, will not change the result.””
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.