595 So. 2d 840 - Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
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
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.
“fully and fairly advised of the charge against him.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Little v. State · Moses v. State“[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“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.