United States v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 85 · 1997
Citation profile
45 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States v. Cusimano (1998), Kevin Hough v. Rondle Anderson (2001)
45 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Young · Darden v. Wainwright · United States v. Hasting · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Alaska v. Babbitt
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not enough that the prosecutors' remarks were undesirable or even universally condemned.... The relevant question is whether the prosecutors' comments so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as long as the comment reflects reasonable inferences from the evidence adduced at trial,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the prosecutor misstated the evidence, (2) whether the remarks implicate specific rights of the accused, (3) whether the defense invited the response, (4) the trial court's instructions, (5) the weight of the evidence against the defendant, and (6) the defendant's opportunity to rebut.”
3 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.