Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2016
14 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 Miller v. California · Dobbert v. Florida · Smith v. People of the State of California · Weatherford v. Bursey · Silverthorne 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of scienter serves to prevent imposing strict or absolute liability on book and film distributors, irrespective of their knowledge of the contents of the book and even if they lack the slightest notice of the character of the items sold. ... [T]he prosecution need only show that accused knew the nature and character of what he is selling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glenn v. State
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.