Commonwealth v. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant’s interpretation of events is not only reasonable one; jury determine where truth lies
• inferences need not be necessary, only reasonable and possible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-02· cited 39×
• Corson v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-09-22· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-08-04· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Caruso
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-13· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Deane
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-09-20· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Russell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-02-10· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Jansen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-03-02· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Rivas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-08-09· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Padgett
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-03-03· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Lynch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-01-08· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Pike
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-09-27· cited 4×
• State v. Robertson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2023-04-19· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Casavant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-05· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-09-27
• Commonwealth v. Resende
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-05

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Haas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-01· cited 209×
• Commonwealth v. Mello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-05-17· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Amazeen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-20· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-07-07· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Wilborne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-07· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Salemme
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-08· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-04-14· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Haas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-12-17· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Crocker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-12· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Claudio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-06-14· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Pennellatore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-05· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Rojas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-04-05· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Kingsbury
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-10· cited 35×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-03-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-11-20· cited 2×