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← 83 MASSAPPCT 190 - Commonwealth v. Oquendo

Commonwealth v. Oquendo’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2024
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Zanetti · Commonwealth v. Santos · Commonwealth v. Lopez

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

  1. “are not separate theories .... [They] are simply different ways of proving that the defendant”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “when a jury are instructed on two different theories of guilt and return a general verdict, there must be a new trial if the evidence could permit the jury to convict the defendant under only one theory,”
    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.