2014 Pa. Super. 5 - Commonwealth v. Minnis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “where the defendant alleges prosecutorial misconduct as a basis for double jeopardy protection, the outcome depends on the nature of the alleged misconduct.”

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

2. “therefore engage in misconduct that warrants a new trial but is not sufficiently egregious to bar mistrial on double jeopardy grounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Washington

3. “No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.”

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