Commonwealth v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. McGill (2003), Commonwealth v. Hughes (2004)
60 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. Barnes · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins · New Jersey v. New York · Commonwealth v. Hubbard
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the petitioner could have raised it but failed to do so before trial, at trial, during unitary review, on appeal or in a prior state postconviction proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Commonwealth v. Ford“Robbins, 528 U.S. at 288 , 120 S.Ct. 746 (characterizing Barnes ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Commonwealth v. Ford
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.