Shaikh v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Blondel v. Hays · Yeatts v. Murray · Lenz v. Warden of the Sussex I State Prison · Clohessy v. Weiler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]he onus is upon the appellant to provide [the appellate court] with a sufficient record from which [it] can decide whether the trial court erred as alleged. A failure to furnish a sufficient record will result in an affirmance of the judgment appealed from.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Com.“would have represented a `two edged sword' that counsel often confront when constructing the strategy most likely to assist rather than harm a client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Friedline v. Commonwealth, 265 Va. 273 , 277, 576 S.E.2d 491 , 493 (2003).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Brown
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.