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.
“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.