Commonwealth v. Tavares’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
July 2021
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Latimore · McGinnis v. Hadix · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. Williams
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the absence of any request by the defendant for such an instruction, or of any indication that the defendant brought this interpretation of the facts to the judge's attention, the judge was not required to give the instruction sua sponte.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where there has been an error in a trial resulting in a conviction of murder in the first degree, a new trial is called for unless we are substantially confident that, if the error had not been made, the jury verdict would have been the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Here, where the prosecutor's references to the defendant's accountability for his actions were ... connected to specific acts of the defendant that were in evidence, the comments were not improper.”
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.