Commonwealth v. Cove’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “that a message had been left for her or anyone else, that the caller had reached her 'voice mail,' or even that she knew before trial that the calls had been made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1109 - Commonwealth v. Jerez

2. “[i]t does not matter that some of the evidence could be characterized as equivocal or contradictory.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Phap Buth