State v. Morehouse’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2024
1 district · 20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Williams v. People of State of New York · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if the defendant voluntarily ceased [his assault] ... before he believed he had caused her death, that does not preclude the jury from reasonably inferring that the defendant intended to kill her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“burden to demonstrate that no rational trier of fact, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that there was sufficient evidence which could reasonably support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt of attempted first-degree murder”
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.