Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Isaacs v. State (1989), 782 So. 2d 343 - Muhammad v. State (2001)
4 federal appellate · 38 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 Faretta v. California · Blackledge v. Allison · Gilmore v. Utah · Gates v. State · Moore 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]fter having been informed, the defendant, and not his attorney, makes the ultimate decision about, for example, what line of defense to pursue, [cit.], whether or not to testify in his own behalf, [cit.], whether or not to plead guilty, [cit.], and whether or not to present witnesses in mitigation, [cit.].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colwell v. State · Mize v. State“Counsel has a duty to investigate and to provide informed legal advice to the client and "first must evaluate potential avenues and advise the client of those offering possible merit." [Cit.] However, after having been informed, the defendant, and not his attorney, makes the ultimate decision about, for example, what line of defense to pursue, [cit.] ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gerisch v. Meadows“[i]t has been noted that an attorney is not merely the client's alter ego functioning only as the client's mouthpiece.”
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.