Morrow v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 551 · 1877
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1959 · most notably Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois (1892), Joy v. City of St. Louis (1906)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Gibson v. Chouteau · Ryan v. Carter · Langdeau v. Hanes · Garratt v. Seibert
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sometimes such claims have been submitted to boards of commissioners.for approval or rejection, sometimes they have been referred to the judicial tribunals for determination, and sometimes they have been directly acted upon by Congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reilly v. Shipman
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.