Commonwealth v. Botelho’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carter v. Kentucky · Bosch v. Frost National Bank · Commonwealth v. Carrion · Commonwealth v. Gouveia · Commonwealth v. Thomas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant requests an instruction regarding his election not to testify, the trial judge must give an instruction that minimizes the risk that the jury will draw an adverse inference from his election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the error is sufficiently significant in the context of the trial to make plausible an inference that the [jury's] result might have been otherwise but for the error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“satisf[ied] the requirement for an instruction minimizing the danger that the jury will draw an adverse inference from the defendant's decision not to testify.”
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.