United States v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Scott (1978), United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. (1977)
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · United States v. Wilson · United States v. Peltier · United States v. Jenkins · Bowen 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Government is . . . entitled to appeal the order suppressing the evidence, since success on that appeal would result in the reinstatement of the general finding of guilt, rather than in further factual proceedings relating to guilt or innocence . . . [T]here would then remain only the imposition of sentence and the entry of a judgment of conviction pursuant to Fed Rule Crim Proc 32.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We therefore conclude that when a judge rules in favor of the defendant after a verdict of guilty has been entered by the trier of fact, the Government may appeal from that ruling without running afoul of the Double Jeopardy Clause. 420 U.S. at 352-353 (95 S.Ct. 1013, 1026).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greene v. Massey“further proceedings, . . . devoted to the resolution of factual issues going to the elements of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Com. v. Zoller
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.