Santos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Members of the jury, I just want to point out something that pursuant to the statute dealing with this kind of petition, by law the Legislature has said that the reports of the Community Access Board and the two qualified examiners are admissible in evidence. The reports of the two independent evaluators that are going to be called by the petitioner are not admissible. So I am following the dictates of the statute. “The written reports of the Community Access Board . . . and the reports of the two qualified examiners, . . . they’re going to be exhibits in this case. The reports of the independent evaluators that evaluated [the petitioner] at his request are not going to be exhibits in this case but you will be hearing from those doctors in a testimonial way later in this trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Santos

2. “The QEs in each particular case are selected by the Department of Correction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1116 - Commonwealth v. Curlew