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State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

170
cited by 170 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

168 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Crawford v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · United States v. Cronic · Ring v. Arizona

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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of all reasonable inferences.”
    13 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “substantial evidence exists to support each essential element of the crime charged and that defendant was the perpetrator, it is proper for the trial court to [have denied] the motion.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[w]here the instructions to the jury, taken as a whole, present the law fairly and clearly to the jury, we will not find error even if isolated expressions, standing alone, might be considered erroneous.”
    4 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.