Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 2006 OK CR 19 - Hogan v. State (2006), State v. Sawyer (1998)
5 federal appellate · 27 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 Stevenson v. United States · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong · Commonwealth v. Colandro · State v. Boyce · Kinard 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . in every future prosecution for murder, wherein the evidence necessitates an instruction upon self-defense, the trial court shall also instruct upon voluntary or first degree manslaughter committed in the heat of passion as a lesser included offense.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“perpetrated without a design to effect death”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not enough under the law of Oklahoma that it be shown that the intent to kill was formed as the result of a reasonable passion, the passion must be so great as to destroy any intent to kill and indeed render the mind incapable of forming an intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black 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.