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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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 passage
  3. “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.