Commonwealth v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 41 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A judge may add or modify a probation condition that will increase the scope of the original probation conditions only where there has been a 'material change in the probationer's circumstances since the time that the terms of probation were initially imposed,' and where the added or modified conditions are not so punitive as to significantly increase the severity of the original probation”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 132 - Commonwealth v. Medeiros · Commonwealth v. Henry

2. “If a defendant violates one or more conditions of probation, a judge may revoke his probation and sentence him to a term of imprisonment for his underlying conviction, or return the defendant to probation, with new or revised conditions.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 356 - Commonwealth v. Asase · Commonwealth v. Henry

3. “[t]he trial judge, upon the judge's own motion, or the written motion of a defendant, filed within sixty days after the imposition of a sentence or within sixty days after issuance of a rescript by an appellate court * on direct review, may, upon such terms and conditions as the judge shall order, revise or revoke such sentence if it appears that justice may not have been done.”

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