Commonwealth v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1987
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Commonwealth v. Garvin · Commonwealth v. McClendon · Commonwealth v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Tate
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two purposes to be served by counsel’s filing a brief that refers to anything in the record that might arguably support the appeal: (1) it gives the reviewing court a basis upon which to decide if the appeal is, in fact, frivolous, and (2) it gives indigent defendants “as nearly as is practicable” that which is guaranteed them under the sixth and fourteenth amendments, the right to counsel and, in the process, protects counsel from ineffectiveness allegations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.