Morris Morgan v. Frank A. Hall, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 1161 · 1978
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably Greer v. Miller (1987), Commonwealth v. Mahdi (1983)
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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 Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · Stone v. Powell · Harrington v. California · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“harmless only when the court, after assessing 'the record as a whole to determine the probable impact of the improper evidence on the jury,' can conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not influence the jury's verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In no case has a prompt and forceful instruction alone been held sufficient to vitiate the use of post-arrest silence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Janda · Dorman v. State“assess the record as a whole to determine the impact of the improper evidence upon the jury.... The prejudicial effect of the improper evidence must be weighed against the weight of the properly admitted evidence.”
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.