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595 So. 2d 840 - Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

56
cited by 56 later decisions
2
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

56 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 671 So. 2d 581 - Walker v. State (1995), 665 So. 2d 852 - Eakes v. State (1995)

56 state decisions

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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 Foster v. State · 512 So. 2d 4 - Hughey v. State · 390 So. 2d 990 - Speagle v. State · 381 So. 2d 1024 - Norman v. State · Yates 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “fully and fairly advised of the charge against him.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]raditionally, time and place have been viewed as not requiring considerable specificity because they ordinarily do not involve proof of an element of crime.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “Denials of motions for continuance have been upheld where defense counsel was afforded fewer days to prepare for trial than here: Hughey v. State, 512 So.2d 4, 6 (Miss.1987) (defendant caused to go to trial on day of arraignment and nine days after appointment of counsel); Cole v. State, 405 So.2d 910, 911-12 (Miss. 1981) (counsel had seven days to prepare for murder trial); Speagle v. State, 390 So.2d 990, 992 (Miss.1980) (new counsel forced to prepare for incest trial in one day); Shaw v. State, 378 So.2d 631, 633-34 (Miss.1979) (defense counsel afforded eight days to prepare); Garner v. State, 202 Miss. 21, 24 , 30 So.2d 413, 414 (1947) (seven-day preparation time for capital murder trial).”
    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.