Commonwealth v. Letkowski’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““What I suggest [is] he calculated the scenario — at first, he said he didn’t want to talk to the police which is his right. He has every right to say he did not want to talk to the police and that should not be taken against him. “But, then he finishes the booking process. What does that involve? They are rolling his fingerprints, and he’s thinking to himself as they are rolling finger by finger by finger by finger, damn, damn. I drove that girl’s car. I touched the steering wheel. Okay. I want to talk to the cops. I want to tell my side of the story.” “It wasn’t impulsive behavior. It was cold. It was calculated. And he should be punished for it.” 12”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Letkowski

2. ““Now, is — could it be — hypothetically, if a person realizes that they are getting fingerprinted, and they realize that they touched something that was used in the course of a crime, hypothetically, is it not reasonable to assume that a person thinks [‘]they might have my fingerprints, I’m going to tell them my side of the story. [’] ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Letkowski