Correll v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Gray v. Commonwealth (1987), Mueller v. Commonwealth (1992)
3 federal appellate · 106 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Bagley
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extenuating circumstances tending to explain, but not excuse, [the] commission of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s a general rule, unless counsel charged with ineffectiveness has had an opportunity to defend himself on the record by giving the rationale for his challenged acts of omission or commission, we will not consider the issue on direct appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.