Commonwealth v. Silo’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Wharton (1991), Commonwealth v. Gribble (1997)
62 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 Mincey v. Arizona · Commonwealth v. Pettus · Commonwealth v. Pursell · Commonwealth v. Stoyko · Commonwealth v. Floyd
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is whether the issue[s]. . . which form the basis for an assertion of ineffectiveness, [are] of arguable merit, for counsel cannot be considered to be ineffective for failure to assert a meritless claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.