46 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 406 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 422 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 900 - People v. Jenkins (2000), 1 Cal. 4th 495 - People v. Kelly (1992)
13 federal appellate · 406 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Griffin v. California · United States v. Lovasco · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
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 422 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In the balancing process, the defendant has the initial burden of showing some prejudice before the prosecution is required to offer any reason for the delay [citations]. The showing of prejudice requires some evidence and cannot be presumed. [Citations.]'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the prosecution's duty of disclosure extends to all evidence that reasonably appears favorable to the accused, not merely to that evidence which appears likely to affect the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions 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.