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.

• an act malum in se includes injuries to persons or property when done wilfully or corruptly
• an act malum in se includes injuries to persons or property when done wilfully or corruptly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Beckett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-09-14· cited 151×
• Commonwealth v. Bianco
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-09· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Catalina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-03· cited 97×
• State v. Maier
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1953-06-25· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. O'Rourke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-03-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-04· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Benesch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-03-06· cited 46×
• Der Minasian v. Aetna Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-06-30· cited 41×
• People v. Pearne
  California Supreme Court· 1897-09-13· cited 39×
• Bryarly v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1953-03-31· cited 33×
• State v. Rogers
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1926-06-14· cited 31×
• State v. Budge
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1927-05-10· cited 29×
• Rudolph v. United States ex rel. Rock
  D.C. Circuit· 1925-04-06· cited 23×
• State v. Bowser
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1927-12-10· cited 21×
• People v. Nelson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-07-08· cited 18×
• Votre v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1923-03-08· cited 14×
• State v. Long
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1919-10-06· cited 14×
• Arey v. City of Newton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-03-01· cited 11×
• State v. Lehman
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1915-12-17· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Brask
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-06-04· cited 1×