Commonwealth v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tedford (2008), Commonwealth v. Rios (2007)
30 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Payne v. Tennessee · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those references were so isolated that none of them could be found to have affected the outcome of the proceedings. [7] Accordingly, Appellant's claim of trial counsel ineffectiveness fails. The claim of subsequent counsel's ineffectiveness, therefore, also fails. Next, Appellant claims that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to move to have portions of Appellant's statement redacted. Specifically, Appellant claims that his statement contains numerous references to the victim being a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hall
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.