Mercer v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Chavez v. Regents of the University of New Mexico (1985), North v. Public Service Co. of New Mexico (1984)
26 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 Thompson v. Peck · Chandler v. Dunlop · Burket v. Aldridge, Adm'r · 122 Ill. App. 2d 295 - Reed v. Long · 261 F. Supp. 616 - Moul v. Pace
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the claim or defense asserted in the amended pleading arose out of the conduct, transaction, or occurrence set forth or attempted to be set forth in the original pleading, the amendment relates back to the date of the original pleading. An amendment changing the party against whom a claim is asserted relates back if the foregoing provision is satisfied and, within the period provided by law for commencing the action against him, the party to be brought in by amendment (1) has received such notice of the institution of the action that he will not be prejudiced in maintaining his defense on the merits, and (2) knew or should have known that but for a mistake concerning the identity of the proper party, the action would have been brought against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eberbach v. McNabney
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.