State v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Scaife (2008), State v. Vasquez (2008)
51 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Oregon v. Kennedy · Alabama v. Smith · State v. Keenan · State v. Schoonover
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) the nature of the weapon used, (2) the lack of provocation, (3) the defendant's conduct before and after the killing, (4) threats and declarations of the defendant before and during the occurrence, and (5) the dealing of lethal blows after the deceased was felled and rendered helpless. State v. Scott, 271 Kan. 103, 109 , 21 P.3d 516 , cert. denied 534 U.S. 1047 [, 122 S.Ct. 630 , 151 L.Ed.2d 550 ] (2001)." Morton, 283 Kan. at 475 , 153 P.3d 532 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jones · State v. Haberlein“When the sufficiency of the evidence is challenged in a criminal case, the standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence, viewed in light most favorable to the prosecution, the appellate court is convinced that a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cook“A prosecution is not barred under this section . . . . [i]f subsequent proceedings resulted in the invalidation, setting aside, reversal or vacating of the conviction, unless the defendant was adjudged not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dale
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.