Commonwealth v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• error to admit testimony absent considerations present in Vitello, but harmless because of “overwhelming” evidence before jury
• erroneous admission of identification testimony harmless where photographs were in evidence, \permitting the jury to decide independently whether the defendant was the person on film\
• erroneous identification testimony harmless where “photographs upon which the non-eyewitnesses based their opinions were introduced in evidence, permitting the jury to decide independently whether the defendant was the person on film”
• error to admit non- eyewitness identification of defendant as no \necessary conditions\ justified admission

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Austin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-11-15· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Vacher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-19· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Pleas
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-06-06· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Key
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-12-23· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Connolly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-05-25

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Saferian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-30· cited 1,208×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Commonwealth v. Vitello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-09-26· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Nassar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-07· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Dyer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-07-13· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Marks
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-10-16· cited 10×