5 Va. App. 498 - Payne v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
March 1997
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · McMann v. Richardson · Correll v. Commonwealth · Zirkle v. Commonwealth · Beaver v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“unless counsel charged with ineffectiveness has had an opportunity to defend himself on the record by giving the rationale for his challenged acts of omission or commission”
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.