Commonwealth v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to develop a specific comparison of the mitigation case offered at trial with the credited evidence offered on post-conviction review....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.