Lester E. Morford, III v. Carl Hocker, Warden, Nevada State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.2d 169 · 1968
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 4 Cal. 3d 911 - In Re Terry (1971), United States v. Bukowski (1970)
12 federal appellate · 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Beck v. Washington · James Graham v. State of West Virginia · Gaines v. State of Washington · Lem Woon v. State of Oregon
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the landmark decision in Hurtado v. People of State of California . . . the Supreme Court rejected this contention, and that decision has been followed ever since. ... If any rule can be regarded as settled, the Hurtado rule is.” (p. 170.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zimmer 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.