33 Mass. App. Ct. 427 - Commonwealth v. Gillette’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2013
7 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 Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Licata · Commonwealth v. Tobin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]rial tactics which, from the vantage point of hindsight, can be seen to have failed do not amount to ineffective assistance unless”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Faust“unquestionably, any `ordinary fallible lawyer' would have sought to keep it out of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Faust
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.