Gray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although most criminal cases addressing the issue of invited error do so in the context of a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to a jury trial, ... the rationale behind the notion that one cannot commit to an act (such as waiving a jury trial) and later complain on appeal that the trial court erred to his detriment is equally applicable when a criminal defendant fails to act (such as foregoing the opportunity to question a witness).... A defendant cannot complain on appeal of alleged errors invited or induced by himself, particularly where ... it is not clear that the defendant was prejudiced thereby.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. A.C. v. Commonwealth · AC v. Com.

2. “In the typical peremptory challenge inquiry, the decisive question will be whether counsel’s race-neutral explanation for a peremptory challenge should be believed. There will seldom be much evidence bearing on that issue, and the best evidence often will be the demeanor of the attorney who exercises the challenge. As with the state of mind of a juror, evaluation of the prosecutor’s state of mind based on demeanor and credibility lies peculiarly within a trial judge’s province.”) (internal quotation marks omitted). 19 . Washington, 34 S.W.3d at 380 (”

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