White v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “occurs when the officer actually restrains the individual or the individual submits to the authority of the officer.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hall v. Com. · Bristol v. Commonwealth

2. “As required by established principles of appellate review, we will recite the evidence presented at trial in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party in the circuit court, and we will accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all inferences fairly deducible from that evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hall v. Com.

3. “limit our consideration in [the] appeal to the narrow issue raised in [the] initial assignment of error, disregarding any argument on and expressing no opinion with respect to the additional issue interjected by the improper modification of that assignment of error in the opening brief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Henderson v. Cook, Trustee for Noojin