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← 460 MASS 249 - Commonwealth v. Boria

Commonwealth v. Boria’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2101

Relies on Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Smith v. Murray · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Walker v. FRESNO POLICE DEPT. · Commonwealth v. Verde

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “chance that an issue may be decided to the defendant's advantage, constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel,”
    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.