Shoemaker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. ““Obviously this provision was inserted in this section of the Code for the very-purpose of enabling the court to grant a new trial where a fair trial was prevented by such unusual circumstances as this record presents, and which the Legislature-could not anticipate and define, as are the usual grounds specifically set out therein.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shepherd v. Commonwealth