398 So. 2d 730 - Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ny person arrested who asserts his right to counsel may later change his mind and voluntarily submit to questioning.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davenport v. State · 479 So. 2d 1362 - Seawright v. State

2. “"The affidavit upon which the arrest warrant for appellant was issued for the charge of murder, reads as follows (omitting the formal parts): " 'Before me, Beverly Reeves, Magistrate-Warrant Clerk, in and for said County, personally appeared H.M. Brown who being duly sworn, deposes and says, on oath, that in said County on or about February 4, 1977 one Jesse Lee Morrison, alias, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, killed Margurite [sic] L. McClenny by shooting her with a gun or pistol against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. . . .' "For the charge of robbery, the affidavit upon which the arrest warrant was issued reads, as follows (omitting the formal parts): " 'Before me, Beverly Reeves, Magistrate-Warrant Clerk, in and for said County, personally appeared H.M. Brown who being duly sworn, deposes and says, on oath that in said County on or about February 4, 1977 one Jesse Lee Morrison, alias feloniously took $5.00 in United States Currency the value of Five Dollars the property of Margurite [sic] L. McClenny from her person, and against her will, by violence to her person, or by putting her in such fear as unwillingly to part with the same against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. . . .' "The Supreme Court of the United States, in Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary , 401 U.S. 560 , 91 S.Ct. 1031 , 28 L.Ed.2d 306 , mandated that the probable cause requirements under the Fourth Amendment, as they pertain to the issuance of search war”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 521 So. 2d 1364 - Morris v. State · 500 So. 2d 36 - Morrison v. State

3. “when read with the surrounding remarks by the court, was not prejudicial and did not warrant a reversal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 584 So. 2d 533 - Robinson v. State · 585 So. 2d 261 - Inmon v. State