United States v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 427 · 1983
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Queen (1997)
81 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2423 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act))
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Santoni v. United States · Ingraham v. Wright · Dunn v. United States
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a particular date is not a substantive element of the crime charged, strict chronological specificity or accuracy is not required”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any error, defect, irregularity or variance which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court need not give instructions in the form and language requested by the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.