Commonwealth v. Carey

How courts have described this case

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

• \[T]he judge's failure to view the video prior to ruling that its probative value outweighed its prejudicial effect was an abuse of discretion.\
• images stored on defendant’s computer were relevant to and probative of his state of mind
• defendant’s photographs of women being strangled and Internet searches related to strangulation were probative of his state of mind
• consent was not defense to charge of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, committed as or as part of sexual activity
• judge should have viewed \highly inflammatory\ video of strangulation before admitting it
• video recording of nude woman being fatally strangled was \highly inflammatory\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Diamond Offshore Servs. Ltd. v. Williams
  Texas Supreme Court· 2018-03-02· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Carriere
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-10-28· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-01-05· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Tassinari
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-09-09· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-11-09· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Coates
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-07-15· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-02-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Vera
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-09-11· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Snyder
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-08· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Wentworth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-07-24· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Christie
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-07-05· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Wiggins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-09-06· cited 3×
• QUILLA Q. v. MATT M.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2023-01-27· cited 2×
• State v. Streit
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-10-22
• Commonwealth v. Joyce
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-19
• Commonwealth v. Ng
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-02-08
• COMMONWEALTH v. S. JOHN CAREY
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2025-04-07

Cites

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

• Lawrence v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 1,452×
• Bowers v. Hardwick
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-11· cited 953×
• Commonwealth v. Flebotte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-03-21· cited 396×
• Commonwealth v. Randolph
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-12-19· cited 273×
• United States v. Jose Luis Gonzalez-Flores
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-08-12· cited 194×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-10-13· cited 166×
• United States v. Kevin Eric Curtin
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-05-24· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-01· cited 146×
• Jaworski v. Kiernan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-06-17· cited 140×
• United States v. Larry Liefer, George Sharos, and Charles Patterson
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-12-04· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. LaCorte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-18· cited 98×
• Nabozny v. Barnhill
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-07-23· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Balthazar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-11-01· cited 93×
• State v. Van
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2004-11-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-13· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Berry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-04-14· cited 87×
• United States v. Loughry
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-10-11· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sylvia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-03-02· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Fayerweather
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-11-14· cited 61×