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← 276 Va. 537 - Shaikh v. Johnson

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.

  1. “`[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 passage
  2. “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
  3. “Friedline v. Commonwealth, 265 Va. 273 , 277, 576 S.E.2d 491 , 493 (2003).”
    1 later decision 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.