Commonwealth v. Claybrook’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. “(1) Did the Superior Court panel apply the wrong standard of review in this case by bypassing the analysis of the trial court’s exercise of discretion on the challenge to the weight of the evidence and substituting its own judgment on this issue and its own interpretation of the underlying facts? (2) In addition to erroneously reaching the weight claim directly rather than affording deference to the judgment of the court below, did the Superior Court panel further misapply the weight standard in clear contravention of prevailing precedent? (3) In addition to usurping the discretion of the trial court judge and invading the province of the jury, did the Superi- or Court panel also draw factually and legally insupportable conclusions from the record?”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Clay · Commonwealth v. Clay