State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Doyle v. Ohio (1976), State v. Grant (1993)
3 federal appellate · 65 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 Katz v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones v. United States · Johnson 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only purpose of a preliminary hearing is to determine whether sufficient facts exist to warrant the court in binding the accused over to the grand jury[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful searches and seizures applies only to action by government authorities or their agents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hughes · State v. Hughes““An appellate court will not consider any error which counsel for a party complaining of the trial court’s judgment could have called but did not call to the trial court’s attention at a time when such error could have been avoided or corrected by the trial court. (Paragraph three of the syllabus in State v. Childs [1968], 14 Ohio St. 2d 56 [ 43 O.O.2d 168 ], approved and followed.)””
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.