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← 69 MASSAPPCT 438 - Commonwealth v. Alvarez

Commonwealth v. Alvarez’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Anders v. California · Penson v. Ohio · Evitts v. Lucey · Roe, Warden v. Flores-Ortega · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins

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

  1. “required to establish any colorable appellate issue as a prerequisite to recovering his lost appellate rights”
    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.