Commonwealth v. Acevedo’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Walker (2011), Commonwealth v. Clemente (2008)
4 federal appellate · 105 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 · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Alphas
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to determine whether there has been a significant error of law or other abuse of discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“A strategic or tactical decision by counsel will not be considered ineffective assistance unless that decision was 'manifestly unreasonable' when made”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reversal for abuse of discretion is particularly rare where[, as here,] the judge acting on the motion was also the trial judge.”
4 later decisions 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.