Commonwealth v. Siciliano’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 district · 12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Harris v. New York · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Davis v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · People v. Curtis
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.
“defense counsel’s conduct with respect to the defendant’s right to testify, as exhibited during the Sidebar, is not an example of ‘behavior of counsel falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer. ...’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosenthal v. O'Brien
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.