Donta v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “[A]lthough the [C]ommonwealth has the burden of proving that a defendant's absence from trial was intentional, knowing, and voluntary, it may be inferred that a defendant's absence met this standard where it is shown that such defendant had knowledge of the trial date and failed to appear.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. BJ

2. “[c]ases required to be tried by jury shall be so tried unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing,”

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