Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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. “[A] conviction may rest upon circumstantial evidence alone, and the inferences a jury may draw from the relevant evidence need only be reasonable and possible,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Copeland · Commonwealth v. Robinson

2. “[h]old on a second, I want to talk to you,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Warren · Commonwealth v. Monteiro

3. “). Testimony was presented that allowed the jury to conclude that the victim sold drugs for the defendant on a regular basis. Because the victim's car was unregistered, he relied on friends to drive him from Dennisport to where the defendant lived in Fall River to replenish his supply, and the victim sometimes had trouble with transportation. The jury could have inferred that the defendant was not happy with this arrangement, given the testimony from the victim's girlfriend that when the defendant came * to visit the victim the defendant told her that he was there”

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