People v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1992
20 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 Neal v. State of California · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · Hoag v. State of New Jersey · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles · 63 Cal. 2d 822 - Kellett v. Superior Court
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 654's preclusion of multiple prosecution is separate and distinct from its preclusion of multiple punishment. The rule against multiple prosecutions is a procedural safeguard against harassment and is not necessarily related to the punishment to be imposed; double prosecution may be precluded even when double punishment is permissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An act or omission which is made criminal and punishable. ...”
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.