Commonwealth v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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

1. ““The words ‘fraud’ and ‘fraudulently’ have a well-defined and known meaning in law. Appellee is presumed to and must have known that by the use of the word ‘fraudulently,’ as used in the statute and indictment, he was charged with destroying this corner tree with the wrongful intent and purpose of obtaining an unfair advantage and securing for himself or another the lands or property of some other person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Mirandi