37 Mass. App. Ct. 339 - Commonwealth v. Adamides’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grant (2002), Commonwealth v. Zinser (2006)
2 district · 73 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 Strickland v. Washington · Singleton v. Wulff · Powers v. Ohio · Smith v. Wade · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the factual basis of the claim appears indisputably on the trial record”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“deprived the defendant of an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether there has been serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of counsel -- behavior of counsel falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinarily fallible lawyer.”
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.