Commonwealth v. Magadini’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “exonerates one who commits a crime under the 'pressure of circumstances' if the harm that would have resulted from compliance with the law ... exceeds the harm actually resulting from the defendant's violation of the law”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1122 - Commonwealth v. Murphy

2. “alternatives that likely would have been considered by a reasonable person in a similar situation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 189 - Commonwealth v. Lockwood

3. “A defendant must make a 'plausible showing' of alleged bias, with a factual basis for support”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 - Commonwealth v. Jordan