Morris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Buchanan v. Commonwealth (1989), Clagett v. Commonwealth (1996)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Robinson v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Commonwealth · Flythe v. Commonwealth
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant[ ] ... killed two persons and, since the evidence shows he shot both his victims, ... he committed a corresponding number of distinct firearms offenses in the commission of those killings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any ... firearm ... while committing or attempting to commit ... [a violent felony].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t d[id] not follow . . . that such an indictment will support multiple convictions or sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Com.
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.