Commonwealth v. Duffey’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Woodson v. North Carolina · Estelle v. Smith
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the record clearly establishes that the act or omission of trial counsel was without a reasonable basis should the court resolve the reasonable basis prong absent a remand for an evidentiary hearing as to counsel's strategy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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