Santos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he district attorney or the attorney general shall provide [the qualified examiners] ... any psychiatric, psychological, medical or social worker records of the person named in the petition in the district attorney's or the attorney general's possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 715 - Commonwealth v. Dinardo

2. “Santos , 461 Mass. at 571 , 962 N.E.2d 726 . 3 The evidentiary provisions of §§ 9 and 14( c )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 715 - Commonwealth v. Dinardo

3. “psychiatric and psychological records and reports of the person”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 715 - Commonwealth v. Dinardo