Commonwealth v. Resende’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to determine whether the judge abused [his] discretion or committed a significant error of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Golding · Commonwealth v. Gilbert

2. “conducted five controlled buys, each of which involved a hand-to-hand exchange of cash for two 'twenty bags' or one 'forty' bag of an off-white rock-like substance. Not only could a rational jury have inferred that [the detective] received what he had requested from the defendant, but field tests conducted on the substances indicated the presumptive presence of cocaine .... [Given] the fact that all but one of the drug certificates were signed by chemists other than Dookhan, evidence of her misconduct would not have detracted from the factual bases supporting the defendant's guilty pleas”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1113 - Commonwealth v. Golding

3. “that the defendant had failed to satisfy his burden of demonstrating a reasonable probability that he would not have pleaded guilty had he known of Dookhan's misconduct,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1120 - Commonwealth v. Guzman