Commonwealth v. Burgos’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
December 2020
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Giglio v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he prosecutor's improper statement warrants reversal only if it prejudiced the defendant in light of the prosecutor's entire argument, the trial testimony, and the judge's instructions to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assess the prosecutor's remarks 'in light of the entire argument, as well as in light of the judge's instructions to the jury and the evidence at trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Medeiros“Only 'strategy and tactics which lawyers of ordinary training and skill in the criminal law would not consider competent' are 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.