142 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), 226 Ill. 2d 92 - People v. Wheeler (2007)
117 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘One of the purposes of the discovery rule itself is to minimize the risk that fabricated testimony will be believed. Defendants who are willing to fabricate a defense may also be willing to fabricate excuses for failing to comply with a discovery requirement. The risk of a contempt violation may seem trivial to a defendant facing the threat of imprisonment for a term of years. A dishonest client can mislead an honest attorney, and there are occasions when an attorney assumes that the duty of loyalty to the client outweighs elementary obligations to the court.’ ” Morgan, 142 Ill. 2d at 450-51 , quoting Taylor, 484 U.S. at 413-14 , 98 L. Ed. 2d at 813 , 108 S. Ct. at 655 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In this case, the defendant’s jury was selected from a fair cross-section of the community, each juror swore to • uphold the law regardless of his or her personal feelings, and no juror expressed any views that would call his or her impartiality into question. Thus, as there was no showing that any actual juror on the defendant’s jury was partial, the sentence is valid.” (Morgan, 142 Ill. 2d at 470 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he trial court’s determination as to the propriety, and possible prejudicial effect, of the prosecutor’s closing argument will be followed, absent a clear abuse of discretion. [Citation.] In order for a remark to be deemed reversible error, the complained-of remark must have resulted in substantial prejudice to the accused, such that the verdict would have been different had it not been made.””
1 later decision 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.