Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably McNew v. State (1978), Scott v. State (1977)
30 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 Childs v. State · Aldrighetti v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 683 - White v. State · Navajar v. State · Ames v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 3. Evidence of prior criminal record in all criminal cases after a finding of guilty. (a) Regardless of the plea and whether the punishment be assessed by the judge or the jury, evidence may be offered by the state and the defendant as to the prior criminal record of the defendant, his general reputation and his character. The term prior criminal record means a final conviction in a court of record, or a probated or suspended sentence that has occurred prior to trial, or any final conviction material to the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lyle v. State“The very purpose for introducing evidence of a defendant’s prior criminal record is to encourage the jury to assess a greater, rather than a lesser, number of years. Under such circumstances, improper evidence of a prior charge or conviction before the jury is inherently prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castillo v. State“(Fd.). Texas courts recognize that a judgment entered on a jury's verdict and assessment of punishment is indeed a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockhart v. State
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.