Commonwealth v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kebreau (2009), Commonwealth v. Sanders (2008)
31 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. Wright · Commonwealth v. Moran · Commonwealth v. Zinser · 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.
“in its weakest form because it is bereft of any explanation by trial counsel for his actions and suggestive of strategy contrived by a defendant viewing the case with hindsight”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“only where 'the factual basis of the ... claim appears indisputably on the trial record.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer,”
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.