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← 53 MASSAPPCT 168 - Commonwealth v. Ortiz

Commonwealth v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Commonwealth v. Saferian · McGinnis v. Hadix

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.

  1. “[g]enerally the mere failure to impeach a witness does not prejudice the defendant or constitute ineffective assistance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[C]ounsel was not ineffective in not filing a futile motion to dismiss the indictments.”
    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.