Commonwealth v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Sneed · Kemmerer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Frankel · Commonwealth v. Hall · Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When reviewing a challenge to a part of a jury instruction, the Court must review the jury charge as a whole to determine if it is fan* and complete. A trial court has broad discretion in phrasing its charge and can choose its own wording so long as the law is clearly, adequately, and accurately presented to the jury for its consideration. Only where there is an abuse of discretion or an inaccurate statement of the law is there reversible error.”
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.