State v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When the same conduct of a person may establish the commission of more than one offense he may be prosecuted for each such offense. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if ... (4) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the person’s course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the law provides that specific periods of such conduct constitute separate offenses.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Yates v. State · State v. French

2. “A person commits the crime of unlawful use of weapons if he knowingly ... [discharges or shoots a firearm into a dwelling house[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Barber · State v. Goddard

3. “[t]wo shotgun blasts were found in different locations on the outside of Rogers’ home, through the window and side of the house. Defendant committed two separate and distinct offenses given that it took the acts of “pumping another shell into the chamber” and then pointing and firing the shotgun a second time into Rogers’ house.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Iowa v. Aki Malik Ross