Commonwealth v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “an objective assessment as to whether the police statements and conduct would be perceived as interrogation by a reasonable person in the same circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 156 - Commonwealth v. Quinones

2. “are considered in the context of the whole argument, the evidence admitted at trial, and the judge's instructions to the jury”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - Commonwealth v. Delarosa

3. “Mere words, no matter how insulting or abusive, do not by themselves constitute reasonable provocation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Howard