Commonwealth v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Dusky v. United States · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Ouber v. Guarino · Commonwealth v. Judge
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the strategic benefit of announcing specific anticipated testimony in the opening statement may outweigh the risk that the testimony will not be available,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]rosecutors should scrupulously avoid any statement that suggests that the defendant has any burden to produce evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“strategic choice[] made after thorough investigation”
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.