Morin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Muniz v. State (1993), Davis v. Johnson (1998)
31 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Kissinger v. Halperin · Livingston v. Texas · Williams v. Texas
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant is not deprived of a trial by jury when a verdict is directed pursuant to a guilty plea since the jury receives evidence at the punishment stage and must determine whether the defendant is to receive life imprisonment or the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matchett v. State“whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.” 6 . The defense pointed out for the jury’s benefit that Grigson has a nickname of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holland 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.