Commonwealth v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2000
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1865
Relies on Harrington v. California · Taylor v. Louisiana · Reed v. Reed · Schneble v. Florida · United States v. Hale
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, there was a sharp conflict between the testimony of the victim and that of the defendant. Thus the record does not provide, as it has in some other cases, clear overwhelming evidence of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the cross-examination did not deal directly with the subject of the defendant's guilt but with the collateral question, still important to be sure, of his credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because of the trivial or inconsequential nature of the entire incident.”
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.