Commonwealth v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “judge the adequacy of a particular instruction not in isolation but in the context of the entire charge ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 - Commonwealth v. Bell · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Ryan

2. “need not repeat all or any part of the original instructions”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 - Commonwealth v. Bell · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Ryan

3. “any intrusion into a protected enclosure by any part of a defendant's body.”

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