Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 40 Ala. App. 234 - Moates v. State (1959), 40 Ala. App. 413 - Strickland v. State (1959)
27 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 Alabama Power Co. v. Goodwin · 18 Ala. App. 557 - Cabel v. State · Carlisle v. Killebrew · Britton v. State · Phillips v. Kelly
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘However it is clearly settled by the doctrines of our cases that a judgment gained in a civil suit is not admissible against the defendant in a criminal prosecution growing out of the same transaction. Britton v. State, 77 Ala. 202 . Conversely, verdicts in criminal cases are not admissible in civil cases arising out of the same transactions. Carlisle v. Killebrew, 89 Ala. 329 , 6 So. 756 , 6 L.R.A. 617 .’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is generally held that a judgment or opinion in a civil action, or the record of proceedings therein, is not admissible in a subsequent criminal prosecution [employing the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard] involving the same matter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is hornbook law in Alabama that a judgment in a civil case is not conclusive as res judicata in a criminal case, or vice versa, there being . . . different degrees of proof . . . required.”
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.