Commonwealth v. Tassinari’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1359 (§ 289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Powers v. Ohio · Bates v. State Bar · North Carolina Natural Gas Corp. v. McJunkin Corp. · Commonwealth v. Flebotte · Commonwealth v. Casale
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the Commonwealth proves each of these two elements [of an unlawful killing] beyond a reasonable doubt but has failed to prove the absence of heat of passion based on reasonable provocation, then you should return a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. If, however, the Commonwealth has failed to prove either of the two elements of voluntary manslaughter beyond a reasonable doubt, then you cannot find the defendant guilty of that crime and your verdict would be not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sudden oral revelation of infidelity may be sufficient provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The admissibility of photographic evidence is left to the discretion of the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.