Commonwealth v. Zagrodny’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lao (2007), Commonwealth v. Pillai (2005)
34 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 Anthony v. United States · United States v. Testan · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Wright · Beasley v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to claimed errors in trial counsel's strategy, none is established unless we are persuaded that counsel's tactics were manifestly unreasonable when undertaken”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only 'strategy and tactics which lawyers of ordinary training and skill in the criminal law would not consider competent' are manifestly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“victim's 'leaving' her husband and 'taking' their children is not evidence of provocation sufficient to warrant a voluntary manslaughter instruction”
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.