State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Litchfield v. State (2005), State v. Crannell (2000)
84 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Rakas v. Illinois · California v. Greenwood · Ross v. Massachusetts · State v. Jewett · State v. DeFusco
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Most people today have little choice but to place their garbage at curbside for collection by public or private trash haulers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Granville“we held that such monitoring was not regulated by Article 11:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Geraw
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.