Morris v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 525 · 1946
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Tatum v. United States (1951), Watts v. United States (1976)
69 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Screws v. United States · Sparf v. United States · Gunn v. United States · Jaybird Mining Co. v. Weir · Bird v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'. . . merely acts as the mouthpiece of the law for the purpose of marking out a definite and clearly ascertained path by which the ends of justice are attained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““a Jury, by means of a general verdict are entrusted with a power of blending law and fact, and of following the preju dices of their affections or passions. It is the duty (says he) of the Judge, in all cases of general justice, to tell the jury how to do right, though they have it in their power to do wrong, which is a matter entirely between God and their own consciences.” — Argument in the Dean of St. Asaph’s Case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essence of star chamber procedure is that the litigants learn of the matter in issue and the judgment thereon only after the judgment against them is rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raphael 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.