Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2011
13 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 Brown v. State · Stone v. McKay Plumbing Co. · 298 So. 2d 716 - Toney v. State · 183 So. 2d 908 - Phillips v. State · Morgan 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure of either party to examine a witness equally accessible to both is not a proper subject for comment before a jury by either of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... provided, however, a person convicted of aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or fireman while such law enforcement officer or fireman is acting within the scope of his duty and office shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The district attorney in his closing argument should not have argued: "Where is this pie in the sky person named Pieshot? Why has the person named Pieshot not come forward to testify today for the defendant?"”
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.