State v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Marshall v. Hendricks (2002), State v. Koskovich (2001)
103 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Olano · Faretta v. California
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Traditional rules of appellate review require substantial deference to a trial court's evidentiary rulings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly capable of producing an unjust result.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The mere possibility that evidence could be prejudicial does not justify its exclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.