Commonwealth v. Bois’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
August 2022
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Matchett · Commonwealth v. Appleby · Commonwealth v. Santiago
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When reviewing jury instructions, '[w]e evaluate the instruction as a whole, looking for the interpretation a reasonable juror would place on the judge's words.' ... We do not consider bits and pieces of the instruction in isolation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he jury also reasonably could have inferred that the defendant's actions after the [crime] were a conscious attempt to cover his tracks, ... [and] to establish an alibi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“it is unlikely that the prosecutor's argument had an inflammatory effect on the jury beyond that which naturally would result from the evidence presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.