United States v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 397 · 1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2004
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Park · United States v. Ellis · United States v. McEachern · Rice 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as evidence regarding a chain of custody does not affect admissibility, only the weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“determination of reasonable cause is left in large part to the discretion of the district court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Streetman v. Lynaugh
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.