Commonwealth v. Burke

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the common law principle that a rape victim is “incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse when . . . unconscious or asleep” (footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Helfant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Sherry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-01· cited 139×
• State v. Rossbach
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2002-08-16· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Caracciola
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-04-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Ascolillo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-08-01· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-04-17· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Stratton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1873-11-15· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Roosnell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-11-22· cited 49×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1954-11-23· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Therrien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-06· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Blache
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-02-08· cited 33×
• State v. Cunningham
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1889-10-15· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Goldenberg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1959-01-15· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. St. Hilaire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-01-02· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Simcock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-08-06· cited 24×
• Mings v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1889-01-17· cited 24×
• Beard v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1906-06-04· cited 23×
• State v. Welch
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1905-11-21· cited 23×
• State v. Gager
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1962-03-30· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1912-11-13· cited 20×