State v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2012
11 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Harris v. New York · North Carolina v. Butler · Jenkins v. Anderson · Fletcher v. Weir
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legal excuse of self-defense is available only to those who act honestly and in good faith. This includes the duty to retreat or avoid the danger if reasonably possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“without warning [the defendant] grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed [the friend] in the side and in the back as his back was turned to her; * * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carothers“the constitution does not bar the use of postarrest silence to impeach the defendant's credibility where no Miranda warning was given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dobbins
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.