Commonwealth v. Valentin’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]onstructive denials of counsel rising to a level of structural error occur only where the defendant essentially is denied the assistance of any qualified attorney who could theoretically represent him in a way that does not undermine our trust in the adversary system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice exists when we have a 'serious doubt whether the result of the trial might have been different had the error not been made.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we conduct our review with some deference * to avoid characterizing as unreasonable a defense that was merely unsuccessful.”
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.