Morrow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2020
1 district · 14 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 Horner v. United States · Dillingham v. McLaughlin · State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Globe-Democrat · Commonwealth v. Plissner · State v. Coats
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the dominant factor doctrine, under which a scheme constitutes a lottery where chance dominates the distribution of prizes, even though such a distribution is affected to some degree by the exercise of skill or judgment. Most jurisdictions favor the dominant factor doctrine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Skill or the competitors' efforts must sufficiently govern the result. Skill must control the final result, not just one part of the larger scheme. . . . Where `chance enters into the solution of another lesser part of the problems and thereby proximately influences the final result,' the scheme is a lottery. . . . Where skill does not destroy the dominant effect of chance, the scheme is a lottery. Horner v. United States , 147 U.S. 449 , 459 , 13 S.Ct. 409 , 37 L.Ed. 237 . . . (1893)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here the contest is aimed at the capacity of the general public, the average person must have the skill, but not every person need have the skill.”
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.