Morgan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1982 · most notably Gibson v. State (1889), Vincent v. State (1936)
30 state decisions
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 Sharp v. Hall · Franklin v. State · Marshall v. Marshall · Kee v. State · Glaze v. Blake
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object and effect of such evidence [good character] is to disprove guilt, by furnishing a presumption [italics ours] that the defendant would not have committed the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it was offered to generate a doubt of his guilt, or to solve an existing doubt in his favor, it was incompetent, because it did not go to any characteristic or quality which tended to illustrate or shed light on the offense charged.”
1 later decision 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.