Commonwealth v. McQuade’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Toney · Commonwealth v. Fidler
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly instructed to consider only the evidence introduced at trial and not to speculate as to the reasons for the absence of the alleged coventurers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An error creates a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice unless we are persuaded that it did not 'materially influence[ ]' the guilty verdict”
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.