87 Mass. App. Ct. 548 - Commonwealth v. Dyette’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'While no recoverable fingerprints were found on the [gun] and no one saw anyone throw the firearm [away] during the chase, a jury reasonably could have inferred' that its location in the defendant's flight path was 'consistent with where it would have landed had it been thrown' by the defendant when running from the police through the [garage].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. COMMONWEALTH v. RALPH R., a juvenile.

2. “we are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the tainted evidence did not have an effect on the jury and did not contribute to the jury's verdicts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1107 - Commonwealth v. Santana

3. “as an area of high firearm activity, including homicides and other shootings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 792 - Commonwealth v. Santiago