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.
“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“[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“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.