Ex Parte Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2011
24 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 Harbison v. McMurray · Ex Parte Elmore · Ex Parte Mrs. Compton Calhoun · 78 Tex. Crim. 447 - Ex Parte Duncan · Ex Parte Murray Jackson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our original habeas corpus jurisdiction is limited thereby to cases in which a person has been confined for violating an order, judgment or decree in a civil cause, and we are without power to inquire into the legality of restraint imposed for some other reason.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Sarao · Ex Parte Hosken“The supreme court or a justice of the supreme court, either in termtime or vacation, may issue a writ of habeas corpus when a person is restrained in his liberty by virtue of an order, process, or commitment issued by a court or judge on account of the violation of an order, judgment, or decree previously made, rendered, or entered by the court or judge in a civil case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Reece
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.