Commonwealth v. Yohe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 40 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the [report] would be available for use at a later trial[,]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 2016 Pa. Super. 98 - Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Brown

2. “whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce a forensic laboratory report containing a testimonial certification-made for the purpose of proving a particular fact-through the in-court testimony of a scientist who did not sign the certification or perform or observe the test reported in the certification.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Brown

3. “did not simply parrot another analyst ... rather, he was involved with reviewing all of the raw testing data, evaluating the results, measuring them against lab protocols to determine if the results supported each other, and writing and signing the report”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Walker