Commonwealth v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• “As a general rule, counsel is free to state in his opening anything that he expects to be able to prove by evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. McHoul
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-05-16· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Mutina
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-02-11· cited 128×
• State v. Fouquette
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1950-08-10· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Kostka
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-23· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. St. Germain
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-05· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. LaCorte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-18· cited 98×
• Sargent v. Massachusetts Accident Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1940-11-06· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Bys
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-28· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-04-07· cited 86×
• Epstein v. Boston Housing Authority
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-12-01· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-04-03· cited 82×
• Commonwealth v. Hartford
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-12-02· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Makarewicz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-02-15· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-04-10· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Daniels
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-01-07· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Sheppard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-04-26· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-03-20· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-05-27· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Noxon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-05-10· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Cox
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-07-03· cited 57×

Cites

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

• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-02-15· cited 171×
• Duggan v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1918-05-25· cited 168×
• Commonwealth v. Chance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1899-09-07· cited 128×
• People v. Schmidt
  New York Court of Appeals· 1915-11-23· cited 111×
• Commonwealth v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-02-14· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Soaris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-04-06· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Devereaux
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-11-10· cited 57×
• People v. Cochran
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1924-10-28· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1905-06-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Mercier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-10-30· cited 48×
• The People v. Marquis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1931-04-23· cited 45×
• People v. Finley
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1878-04-02· cited 45×
• Carr v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1895-03-18· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Belenski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-06-05· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-04-17· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Osman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-11-27· cited 36×
• Taylor v. Creeley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-08-09· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Robertson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1894-09-05· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-02-25· cited 31×
• Clifford v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1910-01-08· cited 30×