Morrow v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Malik v. State (1997), Turner v. State (1991)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Batson v. Kentucky · Bell v. State · Gardner v. State · Benson 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in thus diluting what is required of the State to prove an `intentional' killing, ... [to] concomitantly endorse[ ] an artificially low threshold of proof to establish the killing was `committed deliberately....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Riddle v. State“A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`intended to engage in the act that caused the death ... [and] ... also ... specifically intended that death result from that conduct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.