Bradford v. Knights

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that judges of Boston Municipal Court Department have inherent authority to rehear denials of applications for criminal complaints by clerks of that court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Wilcox
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-02-09· cited 50×
• Atlas Tack Corp. v. Donabed
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-07-02· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Clerk-Magistrate of the West Roxbury Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-05-08· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. DiBennadetto
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-13· cited 39×
• Victory Distributors, Inc. v. Ayer Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-09-19· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Charles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-22· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-11-18· cited 17×
• District Attorney for the Norfolk District v. Quincy Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-05-10· cited 13×
• Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co. v. Clerk-Magistrate of the Lawrence Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-03-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Clerk of the Boston Division of the Juvenile Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-11-28· cited 12×
• Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, P.C. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-03-19· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Orbin O., a juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-02-05· cited 10×
• In the Matter of an Application for a Criminal Complaint
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-05-25· cited 8×
• Bos. Globe Media Partners, LLC v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-09-09· cited 7×
• In re Powers
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-05-10· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Teixeira / Commonwealth v. Meade
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-16· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Rumkin
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-08-22· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-03-22· cited 3×
• In re Criminal Complaint & Application for Arrest Warrant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2024-10-03· cited 1×
• Roberts v. Hingham Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2020-10-14

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Linda R. S. v. Richard D.
  Supreme Court· 1973-03-05· cited 1,991×
• Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc. v. Operation Rescue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-22· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Cronk
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-11-12· cited 103×
• McGuinness v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-12· cited 58×
• Fine v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-10-27· cited 52×
• Dunbrack v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-10-16· cited 36×
• Taylor v. Newton Division of the District Court Department
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-10-29· cited 15×
• Whitley v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-12-05· cited 14×
• Tarabolski v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-21· cited 12×
• Cepulonis v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-29· cited 10×
• Gelmette v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-10-30· cited 3×