Commonwealth v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Curtis (1994), Commonwealth v. Miles (1995)
2 district · 48 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 · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Grace
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion judge has not presided at the trial, we defer only to the judge's assessment of the credibility of witnesses at the evidentiary hearing on the new trial motion, but we consider ourselves in as good a position as the motion judge to assess the trial record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Trial tactics which may appear questionable from the vantage point of hindsight, do not amount to ineffective assistance unless 'manifestly unreasonable' when undertaken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“made a tactical decision not to press the issue. . . . This decision was not unreasonable, much less 'manifestly unreasonable'”
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.