Commonwealth v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Swafford (2004), Commonwealth v. Arroyo (2004)
2 district · 27 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 Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Fancy · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Salemme · Commonwealth v. LaCorte
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the only identification evidence is the defendant's * fingerprint at the crime scene, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the fingerprint was placed there during the crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence does not, however, warrant such a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“possible resemblance to one of the intruders, the general resemblance of the motor vehicle owned by the defendant's mother to a vehicle leaving the crime scene, and the clarity of the thumbprint.”
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.