Commonwealth v. Arias’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “created a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 95 Mass. App. Ct. 189 - Commonwealth v. Lockwood · Commonwealth v. Garcia

2. “[W]hen a judge agrees to give a requested instruction ... any claim of error in the adequacy of the instruction must be preserved for appellate review by a postcharge objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 308 - Commonwealth v. McEvoy

3. “We do not consider bits and pieces of the instructions in isolation”

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