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.
“are not separate theories .... [They] are simply different ways of proving that the defendant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.