Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Roan v. State (1932), Stokley v. State (1950)
2 federal appellate · 179 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 Hornsby v. State · Gibson v. State · Jordan v. State · Williams v. State · Stone v. State
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When, by prearrangement or on the spur of the moment, two or more persons enter upon a common enterprise or adventure and a criminal offense is contemplated, then each is a conspirator, and if the purpose is carried out, each is guilty of the offense committed, whether he did any overt act or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he theory of the defendant ... that there cannot be aiders and abettors in manslaughter ... is contrary to the decisions of this court [citing Coleman, Martin, and Ferguson ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weidler v. State
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.