Commonwealth v. Phoenix’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES (1991), Commonwealth v. Tucceri (1992)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 United States v. Agurs · Arizona v. Youngblood · Isaksen v. Vermont Castings, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Kozec · Commonwealth v. Domanski
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese considerations were purely ones of trial strategy, and, therefore, there is no reason to permit the filing of the affidavit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.