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← 82 MASSAPPCT 427 - Commonwealth v. Morris

Commonwealth v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

4 district · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Davis v. United States · Commonwealth v. Freeman · People v. Humphrey · Commonwealth v. Randolph · United States v. Grubbs

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

  1. “broad discretion with respect to the admissibility of expert testimony,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1124 - Commonwealth v. Brunet · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - Commonwealth v. Brown
  2. “The Commonwealth may refer in its closing to bad act evidence that was properly admitted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1110 - Commonwealth v. Noel
  3. “will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1124 - Commonwealth v. Brunet

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.