Brown v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e review `the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the prevailing party in the [trial] court' and `accord the Commonwealth the benefit of all reasonable inferences deducible from the evidence.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carosi v. Com. · Noakes v. Com.

2. “of a wanton or willful character... show[ing] a reckless or indifferent disregard of the rights of others, under circumstances reasonably calculated to produce injury, or which make it not improbable that injury will be occasioned, and the offender knows, or is charged with the knowledge of, the probable result of [her] acts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carosi v. Com. · Noakes v. Com.

3. “A proximate cause is 'an act or omission that, in natural and continuous sequence unbroken by a superseding cause, produces a particular event and without which that event would not have occurred.'”

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