Commonwealth v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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

• G. L. c. 272, § 16, “open and gross lewdness”
• conviction based on conduct consisting of masturbating in automobile
• defendant driving automobile with his penis exposed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Woods
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-01-24· cited 118×
• Department of Youth Services v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-11-04· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Dagraca
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-10-17· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Waller
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-09-20· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Power
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-05-18· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Vuthy Seng
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-04-23· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-04-25· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Armand
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-11-12· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-11· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-07-03· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Jasmin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-01-30· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Quinn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-05-30· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. McGhee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Sheriff
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-06-11· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Fitta
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-03-13· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. St. Louis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-12-23· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Rubio
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-06-28· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Marley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-12-19· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Crawford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-01-28· cited 32×
• Oliveira v. Pereira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-12-31· cited 31×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Connally v. General Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1926-01-04· cited 3,272×
• United States v. Mazurie
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 1,043×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 550×
• Rose v. Locke
  Supreme Court· 1975-11-17· cited 516×
• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. Gallant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-02· cited 125×
• Willie Salt Coyote v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1967-06-23· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Balthazar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-01· cited 93×
• Town of Lexington v. Town of Bedford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-31· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Sefranka
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-15· cited 55×
• City of Boston v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-12-07· cited 52×
• Lydon v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-22· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Wardell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1880-01-07· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Dustin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-07· cited 38×
• Earle R. Robinson v. Louis Berman
  First Circuit· 1979-03-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Broadland
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-11-29· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Coyne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-05-17· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Cummings
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-11-25· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Templeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-10-16· cited 18×