Commonwealth v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
2 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. White
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here, as here, the very matter as to which defense counsel has been ineffective becomes one of the linchpins of the prosecutor's closing, the defendant has met her burden of showing prejudice.”
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.