Commonwealth v. Polk’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 19 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “defendant's constitutional right to present evidence that might lead the jury to find that a Commonwealth witness is lying or otherwise unreliable.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Dabney · COMMONWEALTH v. EDEN JACQUES.

2. “Evidence of specific instances of a victim's sexual conduct in . . . [a] . . . proceeding [relating to certain sex offenses] shall not be admissible except evidence of the victim's sexual conduct with the defendant or evidence of recent conduct of the victim alleged to be the cause of any physical feature, characteristic, or condition of the victim; provided, however, that such evidence shall be admissible only after an in camera hearing on a written motion for admission of same and an offer of proof”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. COMMONWEALTH v. EDEN JACQUES.

3. “[e]vidence of specific instances of a victim's sexual conduct ... shall not be admissible except evidence of the victim's sexual conduct with the defendant or evidence of recent conduct of the victim alleged to be the cause of any physical feature, characteristic, or condition of the victim.”

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