Morgan v. Foretich’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 941 · 1988
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 13 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Idaho v. Wright (1990), 183 W. Va. 641 - State v. Edward Charles L. (1990)
67 federal appellate · 13 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Santoni v. United States · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc.
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing... present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“genuine risk that the emotions of the jury will be excited to irrational behavior”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.