Commonwealth v. Mamay’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 district · 93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably State v. Alberico (1993), State v. Alberico (1993)
2 district · 93 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 · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Helfant · State v. Marks · 16 Mass. App. Ct. 163 - Terrio v. McDONOUGH HARTFORD FIRE INS. CO.
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of a showing that a different result might have been attained, we cannot say that counsel's performance was ineffective”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the prosecutor consistently highlighted the different actions of the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the judge was exposed to a number of potential mitigating factors”
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.