Morrison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.2d 521 · 1966
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably United States v. Philip Berrigan, in No. 72-1938, and Elizabeth McAlister Appeal of Elizabeth McAlister In (1973), United States v. Lemire (1983)
49 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Graves v. United States · Ross v. United States · Billeci v. United States · Earl v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The missing witness instruction is one within the sound judicial discretion of the trial judge who must decide whether in all the circumstances shown it is reasonable for the jury to be permitted to draw an adverse inference from one party's failure to call a witness peculiarly available to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is settled that ‘the uncorroborated testimony of a narcotics agent is sufficient to support conviction for violation of the narcotics laws.’ Wilson v. United States, * * * 335 F.2d 982, 983 . No authoritative utterance of this court is to the contrary.” 365 F. 2d at 523 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a Fifth Amendment testimonial claim has been invoked by a witness and granted, the Government’s refusal to grant him immunity in order to permit him to testify does not give rise to a missing witness instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.