Morse v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1971
3 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 Harvey v. State · 118 Tex. Crim. 473 - McClellan v. State · 153 Tex. Crim. 1 - Brown v. State · 150 Tex. Crim. 50 - Lovelady Alias Red Lovelady v. State · 61 Tex. Crim. 133 - Butler 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither a motive for the killing nor a showing of ill-will, hatred, or hostility towards another is necessary in order to show the existence of malice. * * * Indeed, it has been held that the intended shooting of one with a pistol is sufficient to authorize the jury to find that the shooting was actuated by malice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boatwright 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.