State v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Unlike Morrow, Arles, and Agee , where the defendants did not possess any manufacturing equipment or other ingredients necessary for the manufacture of methamphetamine, Defendant possessed either a complete or near-complete lab. However, Boyfriend testified that the contents of the lab in their entirety belonged to him and that Defendant had never helped him manufacture methamphetamine. He also said that the items in question were not in the cab of the truck until after he and Defendant arrived at her friend’s house when he moved the items inside to keep them from the weather. Even disregarding what Boyfriend said to disclaim Defendant’s knowledge of the methamphetamine manufacturing process, nothing in his testimony on the state’s behalf indicated that Defendant knew how to or intended to manufacture methamphetamine. The state failed to present any evidence that Defendant intended to manufacture methamphetamine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mickle

2. “[w]hen a pretrial motion to suppress evidence is denied, the defendant must renew the objection or make a specific objection at trial when the evidence is presented to preserve the issue [for] appellate review. The trial court must be given the opportunity to reconsider its prior ruling against the backdrop of the evidence adduced at trial. Furthermore, the stating of “no objection” when the evidence is introduced at trial constitutes an affirmative waiver of appellate review of the issue, and, thus, the matter will not be considered under the plain error rule. As opposed to a simple failure to object, which may warrant plain error review, a statement by defendant’s counsel that there is no objection to ... a particular piece of evidence precludes a finding that the failure to object was negligent or inadvertent and renders that evidence admissible.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. O'Neal

3. “1. A person is guilty of attempt to commit an offense when, with the purpose of committing the offense, he does any act which is a substantial step towards to commission of the offense. A “substantial step” is conduct which is strongly corroborative of the firmness of the actor’s purpose to complete the commission of the offense. 2. It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the offense attempted was, under the actual attendant circumstances, factually or legally impossible of commission, if such offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Graham