Commonwealth v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zinser (2006), Commonwealth v. Ortega (2004)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Saferian · State Oil Co. v. Khan · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Adams
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenged conduct reflects the arguably reasoned tactical or strategic judgments of a lawyer ... [it is] virtually unchallengeable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“defense counsel's asserted failures may in fact have been the considered product of a tactical decision,”
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.