Commonwealth v. Field’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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.

1. “Where an ineffective assistance of counsel claim is based on a tactical or strategic decision, we find error only if the decision was manifestly unreasonable when made.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Webster · Commonwealth v. Seino

2. “evidence of deliberate premeditation from other sources (such as her confessional note, her social media post, and her arranging the meeting with the victim) . . . [evidence] so overwhelming that we cannot say admission of the video recording was likely to have influenced the jury's decision to convict her on the theory of premeditation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Field v. Hallett

3. “need to resolve whether counsel's judgment was manifestly unreasonable because even if we were to assume that it was . . . [it could not] conclude on this record that the admission of the video-recorded interviews was likely to have affected the jury's verdict of murder by deliberate premeditation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Field v. Hallett