Morris v. Dodge Country, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank (1979), Santa Fe Technologies, Inc. v. Argus Networks, Inc. (2001)
34 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 Norfolk Monument Co. v. Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. · Scott v. Brown · Hedrick v. Perry · Trebelhorn v. Bartlett · State v. Deaton
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a conspiracy to exist there must be a common design or a mutually implied understanding; an agreement. (Cites omitted.) A conspiracy may be established by circumstantial evidence; generally, the agreement is a matter of inference from the facts and circumstances, including the acts of the persons alleged to be conspirators. (Cite omitted.) The question is whether the circumstances, considered as a whole, show that the parties united to accomplish the fraudulent scheme. (Cite omitted.) . . . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For a conspiracy to exist there must be a common design or a mutually implied understanding; an agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross
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.