328 So. 2d 65 - State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Pauline (1980), State v. Clayton (1983)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 St. Pierre v. United States · Dove v. United States · Durham v. United States · City of Newark v. Pulverman · United States v. Galante
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e adopt the majority rule and hold that because of defendant's death while the appeal was pending, the judgment of conviction must be vacated and all proceedings in the prosecution abated from its inception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlin
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.