Commonwealth v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• considering whether denial of bail where defendant was charged with murder in first degree may have been tainted by error of law
• “From early colonial times bail appears to have been allowable in the court’s discretion in capital cases and contempts committed in open court, and as a matter of right in all other cases.”
• discussing history of bail in Massachusetts
• discussion of history of bail

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Arthur
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-11-20· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-05-13· cited 90×
• State v. Duff
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1989-04-21· cited 84×
• State v. Blackmer
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-07-23· cited 57×
• Mendonza v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-11-14· cited 50×
• Brangan v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-08-25· cited 40×
• Fountaine v. Mullen
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1976-12-03· cited 32×
• Querubin v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-09-09· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. DePace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-11-08· cited 22×
• Commesso v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-12-29· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-11-18· cited 17×
• Fredette v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-04-14· cited 13×
• Harnish v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1987-10-08· cited 11×
• State v. Hill
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1994-05-04· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Roukous
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1974-06-27· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Carrion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-08· cited 10×
• Tennessee Plastics, Inc. v. New England Electric Heating Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-03-08· cited 10×
• Vasquez v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-03-28· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Bautista
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-04-11· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Phan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2026-06-09

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stack v. Boyle
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 1,157×
• Metcalf v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-03-09· cited 41×
• Peterson v. Cadogan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-01-27· cited 41×
• M. DeMatteo Construction Co. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-02-27· cited 37×
• Row v. Home Savings Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-09-10· cited 34×
• United States v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court· 1795-02-20· cited 26×
• Fischer v. Ball, Sheriff
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-03-14· cited 21×