Commonwealth v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• “If the Court in Miller had intended to invalidate all mandatory life sentences for juveniles, it could have reached that issue. Instead, Miller's holding was decidedly narrow[.]”
• refusing to create “an entirely new penalty scheme ad hoc”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Lyle
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2014-07-18· cited 301×
• Wyatt L. Bear Cloud
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2014-09-10· cited 137×
• Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District Commonwealth v. Roberio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-03-23· cited 74×
• State of Iowa v. Yvette Marie Louisell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-06-26· cited 67×
• State of Minnesota v. Mahdi Hassan Ali
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-10-08· cited 60×
• State v. James
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2018-05-11· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Okoro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-03-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Cole
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-06-11· cited 31×
• People v. Payne
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2014-04-08· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-09-02· cited 23×
• Willbanks v. Missouri Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-07-11· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Costa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-07-09· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-02-12· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Weaver
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-07-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-09-14· cited 17×
• State v. Nathan
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2017-07-11· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Peterson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-03· cited 15×
• Ramirez v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-17· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Keo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-01-21· cited 15×
• State v. James
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2016-05-03· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Miller v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 6,816×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Graham v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-17· cited 3,477×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• People v. Caballero
  California Supreme Court· 2012-08-16· cited 488×
• State of Iowa v. Denem Anthony Null
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 303×
• Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-06-20· cited 239×
• State of Iowa v. Jeffrey K. Ragland
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 211×
• Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-05-03· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. a Juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-09-11· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Bongarzone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-10-13· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Bray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-09· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Chou
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-22· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Bargeron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-06-14· cited 59×
• Cepulonis v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-10-08· cited 58×
• Lowell v. Kowalski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-05-14· cited 50×
• Del Duca v. Town Administrator of Methuen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-06-04· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Isenstadt
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1945-09-17· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Pyles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-11-08· cited 37×
• Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group v. Secretary of Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-04-20· cited 34×