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← 468 MASS 174 - Commonwealth v. DeJesus

Commonwealth v. DeJesus’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
6
states following
September 2022
most recently cited

1 district · 51 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1231 (§ 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Padilla v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Moncrieffe v. Holder

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

  1. “'special circumstances' that support the conclusion that he placed, or would have placed, particular emphasis on immigration consequences in deciding whether to plead guilty.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Lys · COMMONWEALTH v. MURTADHA AL KENANI.
  2. “If an assessment of the apparent benefits of a plea offer is made, it must be conducted in light of the recognition that a noncitizen defendant confronts a very different calculus than that confronting a United States citizen.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1127 - Commonwealth v. Portillo · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1115 - Commonwealth v. Mohammed
  3. “measurably below that which might be expected from an ordinary fallible lawyer”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1114 - Commonwealth v. Bilal · 94 Mass. App. Ct. 1112 - Commonwealth v. Dossantos

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.