Commonwealth v. Scullin’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2013
6 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 Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Helfant · Commonwealth v. King · Commonwealth v. Licata · Commonwealth v. Bailey
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]o prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must establish (1) that his representative’s performance reflected ‘serious incompetency, inefficiency, or inattention . . . falling measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary, fallible lawyer,’ Commonwealth v. Saferian, 366 Mass. 89, 96-97 (1974); and (2) that these shortcomings deprived him of ‘an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence’ or otherwise materially affected the outcome of his trial. Id. at 96 . See Commonwealth v. Fanelli, 412 Mass. 497, 503 (1992).””
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.