State v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 442 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 450 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Treesh (2001)
4 federal appellate · 442 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Pulley v. Harris · State v. Maurer · State v. Jenkins · State v. Bridgeman
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 450 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, of confusion of the issues, or of misleading the jury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“the probative value must be minimal and the prejudice great.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dean · State v. Winston“[H]is findings thereon will not be disturbed on review in the absence of evidence on the face of the record clearly and affirmatively showing that the jury was improperly affected * * *.”
3 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.