Morgan v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2004
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gall v. Commonwealth · Wellman v. Commonwealth · Foster v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Morgan 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when there is probative, tangible and independent evidence on initiating circumstances, such as provocation at the time of [the defendant's] act which is contended to arouse extreme emotional disturbance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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