State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 406 So. 2d 1331 - State v. Edwards (1981), 345 So. 2d 1129 - State v. Bennett (1977)
42 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Barker v. Wingo · Taylor v. Louisiana · Roberts v. Louisiana · 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mental incapacity to proceed exists when, as a result of mental disease or defect, a defendant presently lacks the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his defense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacHon · State v. Holmes“as to penalties. Defendant's contention is without merit because this Court reasoned in those cases that the legislature intended that a defendant be sentenced to the most serious penalty for the next lesser included offense at the time of the commission of the crime. ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR NO. 4 Defendant alleges that the trial judge should have granted his motion for new trial because the verdict was contrary to the law and evidence because the rape victim failed to resist to the utmost. La.R.S. 14:42 defines aggravated rape as follows:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mere weakness of mentality or subnormal intelligence does not of itself constitute legal insanity.... It is only when the retardation, defect or disease, alone or in combination, is so severe that an accused is unable to understand the proceedings against him and to assist in his defense that an accused is, within the contemplation of law, presently insane and unable to stand trial.”
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.