Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1992
22 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Strauss v. United States · Addison v. United States · Stephens v. United States · Brown 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt but what the learned trial judge erred in failing to comply with all of its [Art. 40.09(4)] terms. The question remains, however, whether such error is reversible error given the particular circumstances of the case at bar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Jones““ ‘. . . it is the province of the jury to judge the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony and it may resolve or reconcile conflicts in the testimony, accepting or rejecting such portion thereof as it sees fit.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armstrong v. State““At the request of either party the court reporter shall take shorthand notes of all trial proceedings, including voir dire examination . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Jones
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.