Commonwealth v. LaCava’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Williams · Anthony v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Tavares · Commonwealth v. Satterfield
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not 'second guess competent lawyers,'”
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.