Commonwealth v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While we could speculate about defense counsel's rationale for proceeding the way he did, the proper mechanism for advancing the defendant's ineffective assistance claim is through a motion for a new trial ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1129 - Commonwealth v. Cortney St.

2. “weakest form of such a challenge because it is bereft of any explanation by trial counsel for his [or her] actions and suggestive of strategy contrived by a defendant viewing the case with hindsight.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1118 - Commonwealth v. Bourgault

3. “It is well understood among litigators that an opening statement can be critical in preventing a jury from forming a one-sided view at the trial's outset.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Montes