Commonwealth v. Keefner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 39 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In reviewing a decision on a motion to suppress, 'we accept the judge's subsidiary findings of fact absent clear error”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 587 - Commonwealth v. Barbosa · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1129 - Commonwealth v. Rafe R.

2. “[I]n addition to expressly decriminalizing the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana, [St. 2008, c. 387, § 5,] specifically amended § 34 [the simple possession statute] to set forth an exemption of possession of marijuana of one ounce or less under § 32L from the crime of unlawful possession and set forth an exemption of possession of marijuana of one ounce or less under § 32L from the penalties associated with simple possession”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1123 - Commonwealth v. Sorrell

3. “The officers must have entertained rationally 'more than a suspicion of criminal involvement, something definite and substantial, but not a prima facie case of the commission of a crime, let alone a case beyond a reasonable doubt.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 495 - Commonwealth v. Agogo