Verrill’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “[t]he court shall, before decreeing a change of name, request a report from the commissioner of probation on the person filing the petition and, except for good cause shown, require public notice of the petition to be given and any person may be heard thereon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1103 - In re Riley

2. “confusion in the criminal justice system and, more particularly in its record keeping is ... a 'wrongful consequence[ ]' [of a name change] and ... granting a name change to an inmate will likely result in such confusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1103 - In re Riley

3. “that many of their records are housed in different facilities and are not accessible by computer. Therefore, a name change may not be properly recorded and accurate record keeping would be seriously compromised.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1103 - In re Riley