Morris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Puckett v. United States · State v. Kelly · Edge 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the order does not explicitly state that the court exercised 'its broad discretion as the thirteenth juror' in deciding [Massey's] motion, it is well established that this Court must presume that the trial judge knew the rule as to the necessity of exercising her discretion, and that she did exercise it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sequential charge requiring the jury to consider [a lesser-included offense] only if they have considered and found the defendant not guilty of [the greater indicted offense] is not appropriate [when] there is evidence that would authorize a charge on [the lesser offense].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a greater offense before it considers a lesser offense[,] [but] [a] trial court may not ... instruct the jury that it must reach a unanimous verdict on the greater offense before considering the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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