State v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Davidson (2007), Manzanares v. Byington (2012)
34 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Stanley v. Georgia · United States v. Petrillo
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A constitutional challenge to a statute presents a question of law, which we review for correctness.... When addressing such a challenge, this court presumes that the statute is valid, and we resolve any reasonable doubts in favor of constitutionality'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Aluy interpretation which renders parts or words in a statute inoperative or superfluous is to be avoided.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the purpose of causing sexual arousal of any person.”
3 later decisions 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.