Commonwealth v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Combs · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1118 - Commonwealth v. Amoroso

2. “this is not without some doubt with respect to two of his opinions. Those opinions -- that calls 'typically' are transmitted through the closest cellular site, and that a call from Calisto's address was unlikely to have been transmitted through cell site 4449 -- were objected to by the defendant and may well have required a witness with greater technical expertise.”

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

3. “[I]t is not enough for the appellate court to find that there was some record evidence, however slight, to support each essential element of the offense; it must find that there was enough evidence that could have satisfied a rational trier of fact of each such element beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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