Morse v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Rodriguez (1999), Denton County v. Beynon (2009)
25 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 State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. Payne · Stanford v. Butler · State v. Tennison · County of Harris v. Eaton · Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Hanks
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tended to block the tires of a vehicle from reentering the traveled portion of the roadway”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even a three-inch drop-off should probably have been marked with a warning sign”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“posed an unusual or unexpected danger to the normal users of the roadway,”
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.