United States v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 396 · 1978
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 228 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), 79 Ohio App. 3d 667 - State v. Caldwell (1992)
179 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (§ 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Berger v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Scher v. United States · Thaggard 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 228 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to assist the jury in analyzing, evaluating and applying the evidence. It is not for the purpose of permitting counsel to `testify' as an `expert witness.' The assistance permitted includes counsel's right to state his contention as to the conclusions that the jury should draw from the evidence.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]rror must be regarded as harmless if, upon examination of the entire record, substantial prejudice to the defendant does not appear.”
4 later decisions 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.