363 So. 2d 1013 - Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 600 So. 2d 374 - Burks v. State (1991), 612 So. 2d 520 - Hart v. State (1992)
49 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 Blackburn v. Alabama · Clemmons v. State · Harris v. State · 54 Ala. App. 491 - Bowens v. State · 347 So. 2d 1377 - Ex Parte Thompson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Youthful Offender Act vests in the trial judge almost absolute discretion to grant or deny youthful offender status after making an appropriate investigation.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even where there is credible testimony to the contrary, if the evidence is fairly capable of supporting the inference that the rules of freedom and voluntariness were observed, the ruling of the trial judge need only be supported by substantial evidence and not to a moral certainty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the trial court finds on conflicting testimony that the confession was voluntarily made, that finding will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is palpably contrary to the weight of the evidence.”
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.