Commonwealth v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 24 state decisions

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

1. “Artful nomenclature will not turn a statute authorizing probation into authorization for a continuance ruling. Absent this judicial alchemy, G. L. c. 276, § 87, provides no such authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 356 - Commonwealth v. Asase

2. “[0]ur decisions uniformly uphold a prosecutor's wide discretion in deciding whether to prosecute a particular defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Worma v. Healey

3. “couple[d] ... with a supervisory element to ensure that the probationer abides by the probationary terms.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 356 - Commonwealth v. Asase