Morgan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Crane v. Kentucky · Cryts v. French · Remington v. United States · Williford v. United States · Epperly v. Commonwealth
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There must arise a clear inference that there was a result and that the result was favorable, or some other manner in which the inference could be deemed prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was not prejudicial error. There was no statement that any test had been administered and the statement was vague as to whom, if anyone, it had been administered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“amounted to a virtual banner headline that Appellant had been given a polygraph examination.”
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.