Morris v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2025
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.
Relationships
Relies on Franks v. Nimmo · Kennett-Murray Corp. v. Bone · Camfield Tires, Inc. v. Michelin Tire Corp. · Danculovich v. Brown · Barnette v. Doyle
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the affiant was cross-examined during his earlier testimony, whether the affiant had access to the pertinent evidence at the time of his earlier testimony or whether the affidavit was based on newly discovered evidence, and whether the earlier testimony reflects confusion which the affidavit attempts to explain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The main concern of the courts faced with such an issue has been “that parties not thwart the purpose of Rule 56 by generating issues of fact through affidavits that contradict their own depositions.””
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.