State v. Morin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Couture (1984), State v. Herring (1989)
53 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 Keeble v. United States · Stevenson v. United States · State v. Whistnant · Armedo-Sarmiento v. United States · State v. Rodriguez
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is necessary to determine which elements differentiate first degree burglary and first degree robbery from felony murder, then to consider whether those elements were sufficiently in dispute to permit the jury consistently to find the defendant innocent of felony murder but guilty of burglary or robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he sole issue raised by the defendant [was] whether the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on burglary in the first degree . . . and robbery in the first degree . . . as lesser offenses included in the indictment charging felony murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“requested an instruction to the jury on burglary and robbery as lesser included crimes[.] Id ., at 602. The Supreme Court noted that "[t]he state's evidence justified a conviction for first degree burglary, first degree robbery, or both.”
1 later decision 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.