Commonwealth v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
September 2024
most recently cited
2 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Davis v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Commonwealth v. Saferian
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he absence of an unmeritorious or futile objection cannot constitute ineffectiveness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an otherwise available, substantial ground of defence.”
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.