Commonwealth v. Allen

How courts have described this case

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

• instruction that jury not consider wisdom of Commonwealth’s decision to plea bargain with accomplice could not have confused jury about their duty to evaluate credibility of accomplice’s testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. McCarthy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-11-29· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Daye
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-29· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Cordle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-03-11· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Angiulo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-06-11· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 58×
• Commonwealth v. DiMatteo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-11-02· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Estremera
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-04-13· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Atkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-24· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Fruchtman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-05-27· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Griffith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-09· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Barnoski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-08-03· cited 28×
• Max J. Allen v. Linwood H. Snow
  First Circuit· 1980-11-25· cited 22×
• In the Matter of Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-07-09· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-05-13· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Lapka
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-01-08· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Barber
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-11-05· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Francil
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-12-14· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-11-19· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• Commonwealth v. Soares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-03-08· cited 576×
• United States v. Barnes
  Second Circuit· 1979-04-23· cited 296×
• Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-11-04· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Fidler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-01-30· cited 158×
• Commonwealth v. Dickerson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-06-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Graziano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-07-19· cited 133×
• Farrell v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 132×
• Sinclair v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1929-06-03· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-12· cited 120×
• Commonwealth v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-02-14· cited 103×
• Beneficial Finance Co. v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 90×
• James Kiernan and Mary Kiernan v. Gerald Van Schaik, T/a Van's Atlantic Station
  Third Circuit· 1965-06-24· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-04-07· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-14· cited 83×
• Dolan v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-11-28· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-08-15· cited 49×
• Harriet Dow, Administratrix of the Estate of Paul Dow, Deceased v. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
  Third Circuit· 1955-06-13· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-04-15· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-07-20· cited 38×