Husske v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Porter v. Com. (2008), Weeks v. Angelone (1999)
6 federal appellate · 84 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Minnesota v. Murphy
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“likely to be a significant factor in his defense,”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Zook · Winston v. Com.“`an adequate opportunity to present [his] claims fairly within the adversary system.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morva v. Com. · Com. v. Sanchez“all assistance that a non-indigent defendant may purchase.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winston v. Com. · Juniper v. Com.
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.