Commonwealth v. Burno

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the elements of Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, § 15A
• “[t]he intentional commission of a wanton or reckless act [something more than gross negligence] causing physical or bodily injury to another”
• to meet recklessness standard, injury must \interfere[ ] with the health or comfort of the victim\
• “a battery could occur although no force was applied to a person directly”
• Assault and battery includes “the intentional and unjustified use of force upon the person of another, however slight, or the intentional commission of a wanton or reckless act (something more than gross negligence) causing physical or bodily injury to another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Fish
  First Circuit· 2014-02-26· cited 97×
• Thore v. Howe
  First Circuit· 2006-10-27· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Keevan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-08-10· cited 89×
• Lane T. Mele v. Fitchburg District Court
  First Circuit· 1988-06-15· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Trowbridge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-03-21· cited 75×
• United States v. Dancy
  First Circuit· 2011-04-13· cited 70×
• United States v. Paul Parnell
  Ninth Circuit· 2016-04-12· cited 69×
• United States v. Tavares
  First Circuit· 2016-12-01· cited 59×
• United States v. Earle
  First Circuit· 2007-06-06· cited 57×
• United States v. Hart
  First Circuit· 2012-03-16· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Ford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-04-11· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-04-25· cited 45×
• Durant Blake, A/K/A Terrel Carner, A/K/A Durant Stanley v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
  Second Circuit· 2007-03-28· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Shea
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-18· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Gordon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-09-06· cited 40×
• Whyte v. Lynch
  First Circuit· 2015-12-09· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Caldwell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-10· cited 21×
• United States v. Windley
  First Circuit· 2017-07-21· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Correia
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-11-09· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Carleton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-10· cited 16×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-01· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-04-27· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. McCan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-11-30· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Hawkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-01-04· cited 48×
• Vertentes v. Barletta Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-06-11· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Welch
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-06-29· cited 37×
• Ballantine v. Town of Falmouth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-06-21· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Sostilio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-12-29· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Burno
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-11-19· cited 6×