Morrison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Fisher (2003), Leday v. State (1998)
56 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Faretta v. California · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Williams v. Florida · Offutt v. United States · Apodaca v. Oregon
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a determination of harm in this context is virtually impossible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Some would respond to the concerns about juror questions by suggesting that the court could require the questions to be submitted in writing, and the court could then hear and rule on objections outside of the jury's presence. Apart from concerns about the disruption this procedure might cause, the practice of juror questioning raises an even more basic problem than matters of procedure: The fundamental problem with juror questions lies in the gross distortion of the adversary system and the misconception of the role of the jury as a neutral factfinder in the adversary process. Those who doubt the value of the adversary system or who question its continuance will not object to distortion of the jury's role. However, as long as we adhere to an adversary system of justice, the neutrality and objectivity of the juror must be sacrosanct."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Malone“[a] criminal trial is in part a search for truth. But it is also a system designed to protect "freedom" by insuring that no one is criminally punished unless the State has first succeeded in the admittedly difficult task of convincing a jury that the defendant is guilty. Due process and those individual rights that are fundamental to our quality of life [such as the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination] co-exist with, and at times override, the truth-finding function .... Evidentiary barriers to conviction exist, in part, to equalize the contest between the state and the defense by offsetting the abundant resources and the power of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Culkin
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.