State v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably State v. Bey (1988), State v. Flowers (1979)
25 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 State v. Duren · Theobald v. St. Louis Transit Co. · State v. Lovell · State v. Londe · State v. Land
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This proposition is rooted in the constitutionally guaranteed right of every accused to a “public trial by an impartial jury”, Mo. Const. Art. 1, Sec. 18(a), and personifies a dedicated judicial effort to preserve inviolate this constitutionally guaranteed right in the broadest sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Plummer“them as he alone sees fit.... [I]f an accused is not presented with a full panel of jurors objectively demonstrated as qualified before he exercises his peremptory challenges, his given number of peremptory challenges is proportionately reduced and his right to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Purity of the right to be tried by an impartial jury is so zealously guarded that an accused may covet his peremptory challenges and "spend”
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.