State v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2007
13 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 State v. Medlicott · State v. Miller
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the first expression after the cutting, and was so closely connected with it and so spontaneous that it may be fairly regarded as part of the res gestee. Under the circumstances, the interval of time which elapsed between the cutting and the writing of the words is not an objection to its admission, nor does it place it among past occurrences or isolated utterances. . . . The declaration by Mrs. Castle appears to have been voluntary and spontaneous, and so closely connected with it as to be really a part of the transaction, and to exclude the idea, of fabrication.” (p. 680.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““For another reason no error was committed by admitting the declaration. That the defendant killed the deceased is a conceded fact, and even if it were no part of the res gestae, error could not have been predicated upon it.” (p. 680.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lomax
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.