Commonwealth v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Soares · Cecil v. United States · Kansas v. Colorado · Commonwealth v. Harrington
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidentiary threshold for a defendant seeking an instruction on self-defense is low, as it is the Commonwealth's burden to prove that the defendant did not act in proper self-defense once the issue is raised.... In determining whether the evidence warrants an instruction on self-defense, we consider the evidence, from any source, and resolve all reasonable inferences in favor of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we consider the evidence, from any source, and resolve all reasonable inferences in favor of the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot be claimed by a [person] who provokes or initiates an assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.