Commonwealth v. Ragland’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he task of assessing the cogency of evidence and resolving conflicting testimony, with rare exceptions not applicable here, is the exclusive province of the jury.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1115 - Commonwealth v. Pech · 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1121 - Commonwealth v. Slayman

2. “A judge is not required to charge as to 'factual situations which are speculative or conjectural and which are unsupported by evidence.' " Commonwealth v. Ragland , 72 Mass. App. Ct. 815 , 838 (2008), quoting Commonwealth v. Remedor , 52 Mass. App. Ct. 694 , 705 (2001). Because there was no evidence that "charges were pending against [the brother], nor was there any suggestion by any party that such charges were ... being contemplated,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Finnerty