Commonwealth v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The law is clear, however, that inferential incrimination can be properly cured by a limiting instruction ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Gallett · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1124 - Commonwealth v. Hernandez

2. “it would be a rare case where the process of redaction did not leave behind some”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Gallett · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1124 - Commonwealth v. Hernandez

3. “were redacted, the blank spaces that remained were in the transcripts only. These facts significantly detract from St. Jean's theory that the jury were able to consider the audio-video recording and the transcript together to form the opinion that the blank spaces in the transcript referred to St. Jean. Where one defendant gives an account of his and a coventurer's commission of a crime,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Gallett