Strunk v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In verdicts of ‘guilty,’ or a plea of guilty, ‘for the Commonwealth,’ by agreement of the Commonwealth’s Attorney and the defendant, with advice, of an attorney, the court may, within its discretion, and without the interven tion of a jury, fix the degree of punishment to be inflicted within the minimum or maximum punishment prescribed by law, except where the offense is punishable by death. In the , absence of such agreement and in all cases where the offense is punishable by death, the jury shall fix the degree of punishment, unless the same be fixed by law.””

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