Commonwealth v. Avila’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' Bowden 's only requirement' is that 'the judge ... not remove the inadequacy of the police investigation from consideration by the jury.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 938 F. Supp. 2d 151 - Avila v. Clarke · Commonwealth v. Brown

2. “[T]he Commonwealth was entitled to elicit testimony about why the investigators chose the particular investigative path they did, including the reasons they ultimately accepted and acted on ... information that the defendant was the person who [killed] the victim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Wardsworth · Commonwealth v. Colon

3. “the more wide-ranging the defendant's attack on the police investigation, the broader the Commonwealth's response may be.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Wardsworth · Commonwealth v. Colon