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2011 Pa. Super. 59 - Commonwealth v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Meals · Commonwealth v. Krouse · Commonwealth v. Bey · 2006 Pa. Super. 269 - Commonwealth v. Merolla · 2007 Pa. Super. 201 - Commonwealth v. Geiter

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.

  1. “The clear and convincing standard requires evidence that is so clear, direct, weighty, and convincing as to enable the [trier of fact] to come to a clear conviction, without hesitancy, of the truth of the precise facts [in] issue.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Supreme Court in [Commonwealth v. Meals, 590 Pa. 110 , 912 A.2d 213 (2006)] disapproved this Court’s re-weighing of the [statutory] factors [as this Court did in Plucin-ski'].”
    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.