Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2023
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 Cooksey v. State · Oveson v. Municipality of Anchorage · Sewell v. United States · Staten Island Rapid Transit Company v. Transit Commission of the State of New York Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company · McKinnon 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]iven the special nature of the disqualification right, designed to insure all litigants a fair trial before an impartial and unbiased judge, and the unnecessary expense of the trial which both the state and the defendant are put through when an erroneous denial of such a motion is made, we think that it is appropriate to allow a defendant to preserve this right by filing an appeal from the denial of the change of judge motion. Such appeal will be processed in accord with the provisions of Appellate Rule 216, which governs expedited appeals. Under such circumstances, we will entertain an appeal on the limited issue of the peremptory disqualification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We find little advantage in resorting to the labels of personal and subject matter jurisdiction. The peremptory challenge right does not fall easily within either classification. Although a valid peremptory challenge does negate the authority of a particular judge to preside over a particular case, it affects neither the personal nor the subject matter jurisdiction of the court; another judge of the same court may exercise both types of jurisdiction unaffected by the challenge....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Counts v. State“No judge could have been assigned to the May 10 indictment [sic: the indictment was issued on May 8th] on April 22. Further, the charges of the May 10 [sic] indictment cannot be said to have been at issue upon a question of fact as of April 22, since May 10 [ie., Morgan’s superior court arraignment] was the point at which [Morgan entered] the not guilty plea to the charges in the indictment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watt 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.