Morgan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.2d 85 · 1947
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably People v. Simon (1955), United States v. Horton (1990)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Carroll v. United States · United States v. Simmons · Stacey v. Emery · Director General of Railroads v. Kastenbaum · Wimpling 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne cannot aid and abet in the commission of a crime unless there is another who has committed the offense. In other words, one cannot be an aider and' abettor of himself in the commission of an offense.”
3 later decisions 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.