Commonwealth v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Johnston (2014), Commonwealth v. Sanders (2008)
30 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. Grace · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Sellon · Commonwealth v. Martin
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, as here, the motion judge did not preside at trial, we defer to that judge's assessment of the credibility of witnesses at the hearing on the new trial motion, but we regard ourselves in as good a position as the motion judge to assess the trial record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]bsent counsel's failure to pursue some obviously powerful form of impeachment ..., it is speculative to conclude that a different approach to impeachment would likely have affected the jury's conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where, as here, the claim is that defense counsel committed a tactical error, the defendant must demonstrate that defense counsel's tactical judgment was manifestly unreasonable.”
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.