Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “involved oral sex, attempted anal intercourse, and 'humping,' as well as the touching of [the victim's] penis.” Id. at 741 . At trial, the trial court excluded testimony that a coworker of the victim had previously touched the victim’s penis. Id. at 739 . This court addressed the defendant’s argument that the trial court’s erroneous exclusion of testimony gave the jurors the erroneous indication that the victim was ignorant about sexual relations between men and thus the victim's”

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

2. “the conspiracy judgment into the conviction for dealing. App. 12. A trial court's act of merging, without also vacating the conviction, is not sufficient to cure a double jeopardy violation. [3] A double jeopardy violation occurs when judgments of conviction are entered and cannot be remedied by the”

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

3. “where a defendant is found guilty of both the greater offense and the lesser included offense, the trial court's proper procedure is to vacate the conviction for the lesser included offense and enter a judgment of conviction and sentence only upon the greater offense.”

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