Commonwealth v. Burton

How courts have described this case

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

• reducing first- degree felony-murder conviction as “not legally permissible” because, at time of offense, maximum penalty for underlying predicate was less than life imprisonment
• meeting to discuss what had happened and where murder weapon was hidden
• where court is “unable to determine” what Legislature intended by amendment, “uncertainties in criminal statutes” may not be resolved in Commonwealth’s favor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Hamilton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-04-15· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Wardsworth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-06-19· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Carriere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-10-28· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Garcia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-10-29· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-11-23· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-08-09· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Stokes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-08-01· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Winquist
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-06-14· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Santana
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-05-29· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-12-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Winquist
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-08-03· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Hill
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-07-18· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Zapata
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-12-23· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Fantauzzi
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-03-21
• Commonwealth v. Lopez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2020-08-20

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-08-16· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Matchett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-14· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Moran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-11-18· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Selby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-26· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Mandile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-04-23· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-08-29· cited 89×
• United States v. Bart Stover (05-3562) Timothy Hinton (05-3638)
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-01-30· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-12-14· cited 75×
• United States v. Hansen
  First Circuit· 2006-01-13· cited 71×
• Aldoupolis v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-13· cited 67×
• State v. Camacho
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-05-08· cited 64×
• United States v. Koran McKinley Allen, A/K/A Sinbad
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-10-18· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Braley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-06-12· cited 58×
• State v. Day
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2007-07-02· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Parker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-05-09· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-03-02· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-06-21· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-07-10· cited 43×