Commonwealth v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
November 2025
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Grace · Cavazos v. Smith · Commonwealth v. LeFave · Commonwealth v. Kolenovic
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel's performance alone, or the inability to make use of relevant new research findings alone, or the confluence of the two,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether the new evidence would probably have been a real factor in the jury's deliberations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.