Commonwealth v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
March 2024
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Rogers v. Tennessee · 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · Gall v. Parker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which had been expressed prior to the conduct in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Burris
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.