34 Mass. App. Ct. 229 - Commonwealth v. Sowell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2018
3 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. Barnes · Soberon v. United States · Smith v. Murray · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The challenge is not to identify every plausible argument but rather to argue those issues which are most likely to be resolved in favor of one's client.”
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.