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Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
April 2013
most recently cited

28 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes · Smylie 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[they cannot serve as separate aggravating circumstances,”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a defendant's Sixth Amendment rights are not implicated when the language of an aggravator is meant to describe the factual cireumstances, not to serve as a fact itself.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “The significance of a criminal history 'varies based on the gravity, nature and number of prior offenses as they relate to the current offense”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.