State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Noriega (1984), State v. Verive (1981)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 Griffin v. California · Lakeside v. Oregon · State v. Mata · State v. Rose · State v. Dugan
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. A person commits threatening or intimidating if such person with the intent to terrify threatens or intimidates by word or conduct: 1. To cause physical injury to another person or serious damage to property of another; or 2. To cause, or in reckless disregard to causing, serious public inconvenience including, but not limited to, evacuation of a building, place of assembly or transportation facility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. May“A. A person commits endangerment by recklessly endangering another person with a substantial risk of imminent death or physical injury. B. Endangerment involving a substantial risk of imminent death is a class 6 felony. In all other cases, it is a class 1 misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doss
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.