Rodwell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 19 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a defendant fails to raise a claim that is generally known and available at the time of trial or direct appeal or in the first motion for postconviction relief, the claim is waived”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Robinson · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Valerio

2. “All grounds for relief claimed by a defendant under subdivisions (a) [unlawful restraint] and (b) [new trial] of this rule shall be raised by the defendant in his original or amended motion. Any grounds not so raised are waived, unless the judge in his discretion permits them to be raised in a subsequent motion, or unless such grounds could not reasonably have been raised in the original or amended motion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 152 F. Supp. 2d 67 - Lattimore v. Dubois