Commonwealth v. Mattier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an appeal which presents an issue which is worthy of presentation to an appellate court, one which offers some reasonable possibility of a successful decision in the appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blue v. Medeiros · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Carrillo

2. “We review the single justice's order denying a motion for stay to determine (1) 'whether the single justice committed error of law in declining to make an independent exercise of discretion on the issue of the stay of execution, in place of that made by the trial judge'; and (2) whether the single justice erred in ruling that the trial judge's action on the motion to stay was not an abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Carrillo

3. “whether the defendant's release poses a security risk.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Carrillo