Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Lyon v. State (1994), Davis v. State (1994)
35 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 Burks v. United States · Texas v. Brown · Greene v. Massey · Helms v. State · Galitz v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... provided however, before the defendant [tvho has been convicted based on a negotiated plea and the trial court assesses punishment recommended by the prosecutor and agreed to by the defendant and his attorney] may prosecute his appeal, he must have the permission of the trial court, except on those matters which have been raised by written motion filed prior to trial...,” 7 (Emphasis Supplied).”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Davis v. State · Rhem v. State“It [the proviso] essentially renders what were formerly regarded as ‘windy’ appeals due to operation of the Helms rule congnizable on their merits ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cooper 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.