Commonwealth v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “At the conclusion of the Commonwealth's evidence, appellant took the stand and repeated the substance of her inculpatory admissions in an effort to establish that the stabbing was in self-defense. It cannot be argued seriously that her out-of-court confession determined her choice of defenses since the Commonwealth produced two eye-witnesses to the altercation between Greene and Brock.”

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

2. “". . . appellant's second statement was made after a time lapse of one and one half hours, in a different physical setting, to a different police officer; factors which we have recognized as significant in cleansing any taint from an earlier statement." Id. at 198 , 317 A.2d 270 citing Commonwealth v. Mitchell, 445 Pa. 461 , 285 A.2d 93 (1971).”

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

3. “[u]nder the circumstances, pleading self-defense was the most promising course available to appellant.”

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