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← 460 MASS 277 - Commonwealth v. Morgan

Commonwealth v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Jimenez · Commonwealth v. Isaiah I. · Commonwealth v. Silva-Santiago

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

  1. “evidence tend[ing] to show that the defendant needed money and went to various extremes to get it”
    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.