Sanborn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Baze v. Parker (2004), Sanborn v. Parker (2010)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Liteky et al United States · Ake v. Oklahoma · Evitts v. Lucey
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is limited to the issues that were not and could not be raised on direct appeal. An issue raised and rejected on direct appeal may not be relitigated in these proceedings by simply claiming that it amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the trial court conducts an eviden-tiary hearing, the reviewing court must defer to the determinations of fact and witness credibility made by the trial judge.”
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.