Commonwealth v. Mercado’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Lockhart · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Padilla v. Kentucky · 133 S. Ct. 1103 - Chaidez v. United States · Commonwealth v. Clarke
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having observed this testimony, the motion judge was in a position to make the credibility assessments necessary to a determination whether counsel's advice was deficient ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“special circumstances that support the conclusion that he placed, or would have placed, particular emphasis on immigration consequences in deciding to plead guilty.”
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.