557 So. 2d 27 - Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State · 534 So. 2d 393 - State v. Pennington · 523 So. 2d 562 - Correll 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept for the victim's relatives, virtually everyone who was familiar with the defendant and his acts (the jury, the presentence investigation officer, the chief police investigator, teachers, and coaches) recommended against the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“borderline retarded with an I.Q. of approximately seventy-five.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.