Owens v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Tbe constitution guarantees a jury trial in these cases and so this court bas laid down tbe following rule as to the effect of tbe verdict of tbe jury: ‘The credibility of tbe witnesses is for the jury and this court will not disturb a verdict because the jury believed one set of witnesses rather than another. Tbe verdict must be palpably against tbe evidence or it cannot be disturbed. . . . ’ This rule bas been steadily maintained by tbe court.””

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