Morrison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.2d 809 · 1925
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Knowles v. United States (1955), United States v. Stromberg (1959)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Wilson v. United States · Reagan v. United States · Robilio v. United States · Shea v. United States · Kennedy 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Was the language used manifestly intended to be, or was it of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Comment by court and counsel that certain testimony is uncontradicted is common, oftentimes helpful, and very generally held to be without error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]estimony by the defendant was not the only method of contradicting the story told by the government's witnesses, if untrue,”
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.