Merritt v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
August 1993
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Merritt v. Commonwealth · Hatzell v. Dover, Jailer
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that he pleaded guilty to Second Degree PFO. The indictment is not vague and the judgment is sufficiently definite to remove the need of referring to information”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“dehors the record to ascertain its meaning.”
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.