Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2000
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 Thomas v. State · Geisendorff v. Cobbs · Tyrrel v. State · Bingham v. Walk · 116 Ind. App. 199 - Pooley v. State
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.
“"Q. How old are you, Wilma Jean? A. 5. Q. Ordinarily, when people come into court, we ask them to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Do you understand you have got to tell the truth? A. Yes. Q. You understand every word you give to the Court must be the truth? A. Yes. Q. Are you willing to tell the truth? A. Yes. Q. You understand here is a man whose liberty is at stake. You are willing to tell the truth and, to put it bluntly, you will tell the truth? A. Yes."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State““JUDGE: Do you know the difference between telling the truth and not telling the truth: “A. Yes. JUDGE: You understand you have to tell the truth. Do you understand this? “A. Yes. JUDGE: We wouldn’t want anybody to not tell the truth, would we ? “A. No.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Timely objection should be made to any improprieties that may occur during the course of a trial so that the trial judge may be informed and may take effective action to remedy the error or grievance complained of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State
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.