Morrison v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 425 · 1992
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Calderon v. Prunty (1995), James v. Borg (1994)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Schad v. Arizona · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable in infer Morrison's intent to take back his license and his .22 caliber gun and Morrison's intent to rob the officer by taking the officer's revolver.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecutor ... provided notice of a felony-murder theory by presenting sufficient evidence of appellant's intent to commit robbery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutionally adequate notice of a felony-murder charge could be provided to a defendant by means other than the charging document.”
2 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.