Commonwealth v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1515 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · United States v. Aguilar · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. McDuffee · Commonwealth v. Cruz
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A) knowingly making a false statement; (B) intentionally omitting information from a statement and thereby causing a portion of such statement to be misleading, or intentionally concealing a material fact, and thereby creating a false impression by such statement; (C) with intent to mislead, knowingly submitting or inviting reliance on a writing or recording that is false, forged, altered, or otherwise lacking in authenticity; (D) with intent to mislead, knowingly submitting or inviting reliance on a sample, specimen, map, photograph, boundary mark, or other object that is misleading in a material respect; or (E) knowingly using a trick, scheme, or device with intent to mislead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“: [W]hen an individual denies his guilt, either falsely or truthfully, without otherwise making any affirmative misrepresentations or attempting to shift the blame onto a third party, it generally would be in aid of exculpating himself from liability, rather than of inducing action by someone else. As such, the relationship of [exculpating oneself from liability] to the fundamental anti-witness-intimidation purpose of § 13B is at best attenuated. Id . at 1119 . This distinction is relevant because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whoever, directly or indirectly, willfully ... misleads , intimidates or harasses another person who is ... a judge, juror, grand juror, prosecutor, police officer , federal agent, investigator, defense attorney, clerk, court officer, probation officer or parole officer ... shall be punished by imprisonment ....”
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.