Commonwealth v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Adams · Commonwealth v. Zinser · Commonwealth v. Waite · Commonwealth v. James
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.
“Relief on a claim of ineffective assistance based on the trial record is the weakest form of such a claim because it is 'bereft of any explanation by trial counsel for his actions and suggestive of strategy contrived by a defendant viewing the case with hindsight.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the factual basis of the claim appears indisputably on the trial record.”
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.