Commonwealth v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “need only be reasonable and possible[, not] necessary or inescapable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 399 - Commonwealth v. Taranovsky · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1125 - Commonwealth v. Whitley

2. “Where, as here, a defendant moves for required findings at the close of the Commonwealth's case and at the close of all the evidence, '[w]e [first] consider the state of the evidence at the close of the Commonwealth's case to determine whether the defendant's motion should have been granted at that time,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 438 - Commonwealth v. Alden

3. “We also consider the state of the evidence at the close of all the evidence, to determine whether the Commonwealth's position as to proof deteriorated after it closed its case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1122 - Commonwealth v. Barrios