Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “One thing I would like [to] point out to you right now — and if I don’t do a real good job explaining it to you, please ask the foreman to reread this part of the charge. I am afraid sometimes at first blush when the charge is read, the law that’s given to you on parole says that the defendant will be eligible for parole after he serves one-third of his sentence. Ladies and gentlemen how it reads is that he will not become eligible for parole until the applicable time served plus good conduct time equals a third. Doesn’t say he has to serve a third, it says applicable time and good conduct time equal a third. Let’s keep that in mind when you go back there and make your decision.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dickerson v. State