White v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1977
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cox v. State of Louisiana · State v. Adams · Green v. State ex rel. Southwest La. Charity Hospital · Watts v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company · Castriotta v. Cronvich
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the officers had no reason to believe that a crime had been committed or that any of the five boys had committed a crime or were about to commit a crime. The only reason that White attempted to arrest Morris was because Morris refused to give identification when White demanded it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Criminal mischief is the intentional performance of any of the following acts: "* * * "(7) Acting in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct, or be offensive to others; "* * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the officer approached the defendant in a calm and unthreatening manner and drew neither his pistol nor billyclub.”
1 later decision 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.