Britt v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 59 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “unless it appears from the evidence that such judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Giddens · Rich v. Commonwealth

2. “[w]e consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party in the circuit court, and we accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all reasonable inferences deducible from the evidence.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Giddens · Rich v. Commonwealth

3. “'When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, we accord the judgment of a circuit court sitting without a jury the same weight as a jury verdict.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rich v. Commonwealth · Riley v. Com.