Morton v. Mutchnick’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2018
1 federal appellate · 3 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 ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · Callahan v. Cardinal Glennon Hospital · Wollen v. DePaul Health Center · Kilmer v. Browning · Honey v. Barnes Hospital
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears that plaintiffs are arguing they should be allowed to recover damages for [the decedent's] lost chance to have his life extended by an unknown period of time until his ultimate death.... Unfortunately, Missouri does not recognize such a cause of action.”
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.