Commonwealth v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “more important to the defense than the Commonwealth, there is no harm to the defendant.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1109 - Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Ward

2. “[P]rejudice generally is shown by the use of a peremptory challenge to remove the juror who allegedly should have been excused for cause together with evidence that the defendant later was forced to accept a juror he would have challenged peremptorily but was unable to because his peremptory challenges had been exhausted”

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

3. “it does not exclude testimony that 'is otherwise independently admissible' and serves a purpose 'other than to repeat the fact of a complaint and thereby corroborate the complainant's accusations.'”

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