People v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
January 2016
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Physically helpless' means that a person is unconscious or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bucknell
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.