Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Court did not discuss case law or statutory law addressing intent, knowledge, or deliberate premeditation as elements of a crime”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Fernandez · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1117 - Commonwealth v. Clements

2. “no merit to the defendant's argument that the judge prevented the jury from considering his youth on the issue of the voluntariness of his statements,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Ross R.

3. “prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment ... as it applied to sentencing and punishment of juveniles,”

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