In Re Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2017
16 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 Murphy v. Carron · Osterberger v. Hites Construction Co. · Washington University v. Royal Crown Bottling Co. of St. Louis · O'Brien v. B.L.C. Insurance Co. · Halupa v. Halupa
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is incumbent on a guardian ad litem to show the extent of necessary services and attorney’s fees rendered in regard to matters for which the Appellants, or either of them, could properly be responsible. Such evidence is necessary so that the trial court’s award may be based on evidence, and so that an appellate court may have a record to review in determining the propriety of the trial court’s discretionary action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as it relates to the reimbursement of attorney's fees, has been interpreted to mean an unusual type of case or unusually complicated litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.