Commonwealth v. Issa’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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “urge judges to think long and hard before they decide to require no explanation from the prosecutor for the challenge and make no findings of fact”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Robertson · Commonwealth v. Ortega

2. “[W]here a judge abuses his or her discretion by failing to find a prima facie case, the error is unlikely to be harmless.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Butler · Commonwealth v. Ortega

3. “whether the challenged jurors are members of the same constitutionally protected group as the defendant or the victim,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Robertson · Commonwealth v. Ortega