State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. Overton v. New Mexico State Tax Commission (1969), Enriquez v. Cochran (1998)
66 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 William K. Warren Foundation v. Barnes · McClain v. State · Zellers v. Huff · 39 Wash. 2d 63 - State v. Thorne
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of an express statute or rule, no appeal will lie from anything other than a formal written order or judgment signed by the judge and filed in the case or entered upon the records of the court and signed by the judge thereof. State v. Thorne, 39 Wash.2d 63 , 234 P.2d 528 ; State v. McClain, 186 Tenn. 401 , 210 S.W.2d 680 . An oral ruling by the trial judge is not a final judgment. It is merely evidence of what the court had decided to do but he can change such ruling at any time before the entry of a final judgment. State v. McClain, supra.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In criminal cases, as well as civil, the judgment is final for the purpose of appeal when it terminates the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing to be done but to enforce by execution what has been determined. (Citing cases). A sentence must be imposed to complete the steps of the prosecution. Until sentence is imposed there is no finality of the judgment. The sentence is the judgment. (Citing cases). “In the instant case the adjudication of contempt of court is plain and unequivocal, but since there was no judgment or sentence pronounced, it was still pending and further judgment was necessary. Consequently, it was not ripe for review as a right in any form.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact that the jurisdictional question is not raised by the parties is of no consequence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.