State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably 338 So. 2d 662 - State v. Curtis (1976), State v. Faciane (1957)
39 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 State v. Henry · State v. Smith · State v. Burch · State v. Reed · State v. Natalle
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A trial judge is never authorized to make a charge based on a special defense not supported by the evidence, and it is his duty to give a requested charge only when it is ‘wholly correct and wholly pertinent’. LSA-R.S. 15:390. See State v. Reed, 206 La. 143 , 19 So.2d 28 , and cases cited therein; State v. Natalie, 172 La. 709 , 135 So. 34 ; State v. Burch, 170 La. 812 , 129 So. 212 ; State v. Tatum, 162 La. 872 , 111 So. 264 .” State v. Morris, 222 La. 480 , 62 So.2d 649, 650 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Butler“the examination shall be limited to that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.