Commonwealth v. Gonsalves’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pennsylvania v. Mimms · United States v. Goodwin · Maryland v. Wilson · Wellesley College v. Attorney General · Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to equalize the resources of the defendant with those of the Commonwealth' in cases where a defendant does not have court-appointed counsel but is forced to defend against a Commonwealth appeal; and to prevent a defendant's privately retained counsel from being placed 'in the untenable position of either volunteering his services on appeal or abandoning the defendant.'”
2 later decisions 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.