Commonwealth v. Melo’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Saferian · Commonwealth v. Freeman · Commonwealth v. Adams · Solina v. United States · United States v. Webster
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile [the attorney's] appearance in a Massachusetts court may be fodder for those interested in the unauthorized practice of law, it was not of a character that by itself requires relieving the defendant of an otherwise just conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“representation of the * * * defendant [fell] well within the category of cases not requiring automatic vacating of the conviction.”
1 later decision 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.