Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Lawrence v. State (2010), Hulett v. State (2014)
84 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Edwards v. Arizona · Michigan v. Mosley · Mallory 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because his trial attorney did not testify on the motion for new trial, [Appellant] “ ‘made no affirmative showing that the purported (evidentiary) deficiencies in his trial counsel’s representation were indicative of ineffectiveness and were not examples of a conscious and deliberate trial strategy.’ (Cit.)” [Cit.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It need only appear to the court from the circumstances of the case that there was a probability that the deceased was conscious of his condition at the time he made the statement. . . .” [Cit.] The testimony introduced as dying declarations need not “contain any statement by the deceased to the effect that he was conscious of impending death at the time the declarations were made, since this may be inferred from the nature of the wounds and other circumstances.” [Cits.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woodard v. State · Sanford v. State“`must overcome the strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the broad range of reasonable professional conduct.' [Cit.]”
2 later decisions 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.