State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2019
19 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 277 So. 2d 126 - State v. Prieur · 278 So. 2d 781 - State v. Moore · 307 So. 2d 594 - State v. Banks · 345 So. 2d 474 - State v. Ledet · 340 So. 2d 1353 - State v. Frederick
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[d]ifferent consideration[s] may obtain if the accused affirmatively raises specific issues of fact which the otherwise-inadmissible other-crime evidence becomes relevant to rebut...." Id., 362 So.2d at 1381 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I consider that evidence of defendant's previous convictions for the aggravated assault on one child and manslaughter of another infant child would be admissible to show her intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm on her victim child injured in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in order to show intent, evidence is admissible of similar acts, independent of the act charged as a crime in the indictment, for though intent is a question of fact, it need not be proven as a fact, it may be inferred from the circumstances of the transactions.”
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.