LaCourt v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2005
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth ex rel. Rambeau v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Owens · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Tyler
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile an indigent parolee facing revocation of his or heir parole is entitled to -appointed counsel to represent him before the Board, . . . ian indigent parolee does not have the right to appointed counsel of Ms or her choice. ... A parolee’s right to counsel guarantees only that an indigent parolee ibe provided .with counsel who is competent and who represents Ms best interests in an effective manner. . . . TMs right does not entitle a parolee to the best or most experienced defense counsel available. [The parolee] bears the burden of showing counsel’s ineffectiveness so as to entitle him to relief. ... A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel has two parts, both of wMch must be shown for a parolee to be entitled to relief. The first is a showing that the parolee’s counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as ‘counsel’ guaranteed under law. The second is that the parolee must show counsel's deficient performance prejudiced his de fense. . . . Tlo show .prejudice sufficient to satisfy the second requirement, a parolee must show .that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s deficient performlance, the result of -the proceedings would have been different. . . . [A] parolee must satisfy both parts of the test to be entitled to relief----”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]hile an indigent parolee facing revocation of his or her parole is entitled to appointed counsel to represent him before the Board, .... an indigent parolee does not have the right to appointed counsel of his or her choice.... A parolees right to counsel guarantees only that an indigent párolee be provided with counsel who is competent and who represents his best interests in an effective manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the counsel made errors so serious that he or she was not functioning as counsel guaranteed by law, and (2) the counsel’s errors were so serious that there is a reasonable probability that but for counsel’s errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
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.