Morey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 9 district · 288 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Blockburger v. United States (1932), Brown v. Ohio (1977)
49 federal appellate · 9 district · 288 state decisions — followed in 41 states
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 Commonwealth v. Squires · Commonwealth v. Lindsey · Commonwealth v. Hogan · Commonwealth v. Sheehan
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single act may be an offense against two statutes; and if each statute requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or conviction under either statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecution and punishment under the other.”
19 later decisions 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.