United States v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
714 F.2d 669 · 1983
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Will v. Comprehensive Accounting Corp. (1985), Wilson v. Mintzes (1985)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Holloway v. Arkansas · Davis v. Alaska · LaRocca v. United States · United States v. Seale · United States v. Calabro
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.
“[u]nless there is a demonstrated conflict of interests or counsel and defendant are embroiled in an 'irreconcilable conflict' that is 'so great that it resulted in a total lack of communication preventing an adequate defense,' there is no abuse of discretion in denying a motion [to withdraw].”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The recognized rationales for forbidding counsel to appear as a witness are: ... it eliminates the possibility that the attorney will not be a fully objective witness, ... it reduces the risk that the trier of fact will confuse the roles of advocate and witness and erroneously grant testimonial weight to an attorney's arguments, ... it reflects a broad concern that the administration of justice not only be fair, but also appear fair....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This rule, however, does not render an advocate incompetent as a witness, but merely vests the trial court with discretion to determine whether counsel may appear as a witness without withdrawing from the case.”
1 later decision 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.