State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Anderson (2015), State v. Rush (1998)
55 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 Brown v. Walker · United States v. Klein · Schick v. Reed · State ex rel. Jackman v. Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County · Commonwealth v. Sutley
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He [the Governor] shall have power, after conviction, to grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons, for all crimes and offenses, except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions as he may think proper; subject, however, to such regulations, as to the manner of applying for pardons, as may be prescribed by law.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has long been recognized in this state that the General Assembly has the plenary power to prescribe crimes and fix penalties”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ervin
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.