People v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant v. Frank D. RODRIGUEZ, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee. (1996), Hendershott v. People (1982)
30 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 Patterson v. New York · Pauling v. McElroy · People v. CALVAREST · People v. District Court for County of Jefferson · People v. McCrary
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature may provide that a homicide committed during defendant's participation in a felony shall be punishable as first-degree murder. This legislative decision is in no way rendered arbitrary by a legislative determination that criminally negligent homicide, although requiring a culpable mental state, is a less serious offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Jones · People v. Black“Murder in the second degree. (1) A person commits the crime of murder in the second degree if: (a) He causes the death of a person knowingly, but not after deliberation. (2) Diminished responsibility due to lack of mental capacity or self-induced intoxication is not a defense to murder in the second degree. (3) Murder in the second degree is a class 2 felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Campisi““Acting either alone or with one or more persons, he commits or attempts to ... commit ... robbery ... and, in the course of or in furtherance of the crime that he is committing or attempting to commit, or of immediate flight therefrom, the death of a person, other than one of the participants, is caused by anyone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kittrell
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.