Commonwealth v. Thurston’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2022
23 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 Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Lopez
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an evidentiary hearing should be held on such a motion depends not just on the defendant's presenting a serious or substantial issue, but also on his making a credible and adequate showing thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant's almost decade-long -- and entirely unexplained -- delay in bringing his motion was a circumstance particularly engendering disbelief”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inevitably inheres in a motion seeking to overturn an ancient conviction.”
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.