Commonwealth v. Duran’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Watson (2009), Commonwealth v. Denis (2004)
2 district · 29 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 · Jones v. Barnes · Commonwealth v. Saferian · O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland · Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Speculation, without more, is not a sufficient basis to establish ineffective representation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether there has been serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention of counsel -- behavior of counsel falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer -- and, if that is found, then, typically, whether it has likely deprived the defendant of an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when he was removed. The primary issue of identification related to the transference theory. 21 At the evidentiary hearing on the defendant's motion for a new trial, trial counsel testified that, at the time of the trial, he believed it would have been a poor tactical choice to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.