Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Hall · Foster v. State · Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees · 151 Ill. 2d 498 - People v. Ramey · 549 So. 2d 1316 - Gray 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only an error so fundamental that it generates a miscarriage of justice rises to the level of plain error....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant who fails to make a contemporaneous objection must rely on plain error to raise the assignment on appeal. This Court applies the plain error rule only when a defendant’s substantive rights are affected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor 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.