Velazquez 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. “amounts to an obvious miscarriage of justice”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. A.R.A. v. Commonwealth · Brown, T v. Commonwealth

2. “[t]he term 'manifest' is defined as being 'synonymous with open, clear, visible, unmistakable, indubitable, indisputable, evident, and self-evident. In evidence, that which is clear and requires no proof ; that which is notorious.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. A.R.A. v. Commonwealth

3. “[A] defendant who moves to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing need only show that [1] his motion was made in good faith and [2] premised upon a reasonable basis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown, T v. Commonwealth