Commonwealth v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lantzy (1999), Commonwealth v. Basemore (2000)
65 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 Pennsylvania v. Finley · New Jersey v. New York · Kashif v. United States · Britt v. North Carolina · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding that a chosen strategy lacked a reasonable basis is not warranted unless it can be concluded that an alternative not chosen offered a potential for success substantially greater than the course actually pursued.”
2 later decisions 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.