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3 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 17 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. Packard.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 Commonwealth v. Packard Anchor
pasuperct · 2001
green “suspicion and conjecture are not evidence and are unacceptable as such.” 6
2 Commonwealth v. Black
pasuperct · 2015
green “a prima facie case consists of evidence, read in the light most favorable to the commonwealth, that sufficiently establishes both the commission of a crime and that the accused is probably the perpetrator of that crime.” 6
3 Commonwealth v. Packard
pasuperct · 2001
green “in determining the presence or absence of a prima facie case, inferences reasonably drawn from the evidence of record that would support a verdict of guilty are to be given effect, but suspicion and conjecture are not evidence and are unacceptable as such.” 5

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