Morris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 88 Wash. 2d 127 - State v. Smith (1977), United States v. Davis (2012)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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
Relies on United States v. Jeffers · Lanza v. State of New York · Riggan v. Virginia · Riggan v. Commonwealth · Atlantic Greyhound Corp. v. Shelton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that the seizure by the officer of the defendant's clothes under the related circumstances was in violation of the rights guaranteed to him by the Fourth Amendment to the Federal Constitution.”
1 later decision 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.