Commonwealth v. Entwistle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'Officers do not need ironclad proof of "a likely serious, life-threatening”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Arias · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 633 - Commonwealth v. Raspberry

2. “It suffices that there are objectively reasonable grounds to believe that emergency aid might be needed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 633 - Commonwealth v. Raspberry · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1111 - Commonwealth v. Qadir

3. “defendant is not entitled to a jury that knows nothing about the crime, so long as jurors are able fairly to weigh the evidence in the case, set aside any information they learned outside the court room, follow the judge's instructions, and render an impartial verdict”

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