Commonwealth v. Marrero’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant presents absolutely no argument in support of his catchall claim of ineffective assistance of prior appellate counsel.... Instead, [Appellant] simply argues the merits of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. In my opinion, and consistent with this Court's prior caselaw, Appellant has therefore also waived his catchall claim of ineffective assistance of prior appellate counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Moore

2. “Appellant has waived all of his ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims by failing to present them at his first opportunity to do so when his trial counsel no longer represented him, which was on his direct appeal to this Court”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Ford

3. “first opportunity to attack the stewardship of his prior appellate counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Ford