Applegate v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[o]ur precedent does not support a conclusion that a trial court is required to include any identifying evidentiary detail in instructions in which a defendant is charged with only one count of an offense.”

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

2. “when an indictment charges a defendant with the same offense multiple times, the jury instructions must include language to factually distinguish one offense from another.”

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

3. “[i]t would be wholly unreasonable to expect a child of such tender years to remember specific dates, especially given the long time period over which the abuse occurred.”

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