Commonwealth v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is simply nonsense to say that society is prepared to recognize his right to be where society by the process of the law has ordered him not to be. . . . What deprives this defendant of a reasonable expectation of privacy is not his status as a law violator in general, but the fact that he was under a specific and valid legal order not to be in this particular place.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Tyler Boyer · State v. Stephenson

2. “[The officers] might rightly be concerned that the assurances [that the woman] gave them at the door were the result of intimidation by the defendant whom they had reason to believe was lurking within.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Causey

3. “It is simply nonsense to say that society is prepared to recognize [the defendant's] right to be where society by the processes of the law has ordered him not to be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 352 F. Supp. 3d 327 - United States v. Murray