Commonwealth v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 3 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In so far as it is a question of the credibility of the proffered testimony of the above witnesses, I find that much of it is contradictory and that their proffered testimony is neither reliable nor credible. “After a review of all the testimony contained in the transcript of the trial, I find that there is nothing in the ‘newly discovered’ evidence which would be anything more than cumulative, and I find that its absence at the trial did not in all likelihood make any difference in the jury’s verdict. I am not convinced that justice either was not, or may not have been, done at the trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grace v. Butterworth