Morse v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Averhart v. State (1984)
26 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 McClain v. United States · White v. State · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Whitten v. State · Collins 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hearsay is an out-of-court statement repeated in court to establish the truth of the matter contained therein. These statements were not offered for the truth of the matters they contained, rather they were offered to prove Cynthia’s state of mind and show why she went to Carter’s house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley 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.