Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2002
10 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 Coffin v. United States · 308 So. 2d 71 - Newell v. State · Carr v. State · Martin v. State · 23 Ala. App. 281 - Martin v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the questionable verdict in this case requires us to rule that no verdict either of acquittal or conviction was reached and that the case must be tried anew.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“COURT: Is this your verdict? Yes. BOONE: I guess so ... I did not not want to be the one to hang the jury. COURT: Do not say anything else. Is this your verdict? BOONE: Yes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We would first point out that the evidence in this case as to criminal intent was extremely close and has given this Court much concern." Morgan v. State, 370 So.2d at 231 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. State
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.