Commonwealth v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2024
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Oregon v. Ice · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Spotz · Martin v. DOT, Bureau of Driver Licensing
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Finally, at least in the post-Apprendi landscape, and in matters which are governed by the decision, serious arguments are being made to the effect that the courts ought to reconsider the policy against special jury findings. See, e.g., Meghan A. Ferguson, Balancing Lenity, Rationality and Finality: A Case for Special Verdict Forms in Cases Involving Overlapping Federal Criminal Offenses, 59 DUKE L.J. 1195, 1208 n. 85 (2010) (collecting decisions reflecting the use of special verdict forms in the wake of Apprendi). Therefore I would refrain from continuing to suggest an inflexible position on the subject.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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