State v. Morant’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2018
23 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Manson v. Brathwaite · Turner v. Safley · Griffith v. Kentucky · State v. Valentine
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the jury reach a verdict or that the trial court intended to hold the jury until a verdict was reached. Accordingly, the use of the instruction did not coerce the jury's verdict, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in giving it. Defendant argues, nevertheless, that giving the hammer instruction is inherently coercive. Defendant claims use of the hammer instruction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Friend
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.