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← 467 MASS 96 - Commonwealth v. Morganti

Commonwealth v. Morganti’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Waller v. Georgia · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Presley v. Georgia

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

  1. “would tear the fabric of our well-established waiver jurisprudence ... and would defeat the core purposes of the waiver doctrine: to protect society's interest in the finality of its judicial decisions, and to promote judicial efficiency.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]t is well settled that the violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is structural error requiring reversal . . . even structural error is subject to the doctrine of waiver.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “trial counsel may waive the right [to an open court room] on his own as a tactical decision without informing his client”
    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.