Morrow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Smith v. State (1996), Smith v. State (2010)
52 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Evitts v. Lucey · Strickland 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appeal will lie from a judgment entered on a guilty plea only if the issue on appeal can be resolved by facts appearing in the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Caine v. State · Ringold v. State“[O]nce the State has created a right of appeal, it must `offer each defendant a fair opportunity to obtain an adjudication on the merits of his appeal. [Cit.]' The majority has denied [Caine] such a `fair opportunity' by reducing his right of appeal to a `meaningless ritual' by precluding him from effectively asserting his appellate arguments. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Caine v. State“[w]here the question on appeal is one which may be resolved by facts appearing in the record, ... a direct appeal will lie,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ringold 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.