State v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
August 1981
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · State v. Couture · Duncan v. State · Beaulieu v. State · Hamner 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the prisoner made an unauthorized departure from ... [a place where] he was detained are issues of fact which the Justice properly submitted to the jury. Whether the detention was a lawful detention was a question of law for the Court.” (emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tibbetts
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.