Commonwealth v. Butler

How courts have described this case

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

• \the passage of time is a double-edge sword\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Nelson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-12-04· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Denehy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-01-08· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Dirico
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-09-13· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Ray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-02-12· cited 18×
• Stephen Henry Hopper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-10· cited 15×
• State of Maine v. Nicholas W. Norris
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2023-01-31· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Polanco
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-02-20· cited 11×
• Butler v. Mitchell
  First Circuit· 2016-03-09· cited 9×
• Vasquez v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-03-28· cited 9×
• State v. Wright
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2017-09-22· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-06-30· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-03-21· cited 1×
• Butler v. Mitchell
  D. Massachusetts· 2015-05-19· cited 1×
• State of Iowa v. Deaonsy Smith Jr.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-04-09
• Commonwealth v. Fitzpatrick
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-02
• Commonwealth v. O'neill
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-01
• Commonwealth v. Carr
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-11-14
• Commonwealth v. Kuilan
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-03
• Commonwealth v. Arnott
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-08-08
• Commonwealth v. Edgar Andre
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2025-09-04

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• United States v. Marion
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 3,756×
• Doggett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 3,106×
• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• Commonwealth v. Saferian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-07-30· cited 1,208×
• Smith v. Hooey
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-20· cited 1,132×
• United States v. MacDonald
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-31· cited 917×
• United States v. Loud Hawk
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-03· cited 786×
• United States v. Janice Wallace, United States of America v. Elmore Penn
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-06-08· cited 273×
• People v. Martinez
  California Supreme Court· 2000-04-06· cited 155×
• Rashad v. Walsh
  First Circuit· 2002-08-14· cited 125×
• United States v. Joseph R. Koller
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-04-22· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Gove
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-13· cited 111×
• Serna v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1985-10-24· cited 106×
• Commonwealth v. Look
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-03-04· cited 65×
• United States v. Anthony R. Colombo and Joseph Colombo, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1988-07-18· cited 61×
• United States v. Ronald Fuesting
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-04-15· cited 59×
• United States v. Boskic
  First Circuit· 2008-10-22· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-10-29· cited 53×
• Brady v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-14· cited 50×