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.

• judge incorrectly attributed age of case to Commonwealth and did not account for prosecutor's efforts to find and secure principal witness
• \a judge has the authority to dismiss an indictment ... where the Commonwealth has repeatedly failed to produce its witnesses and effectuate a prosecution\ [emphasis added]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-09-13· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-03-19· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ackerman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-04-05
• TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY & Others v. CLERK-MAGISTRATE OF THE CAMBRIDGE DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT & others
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2024-11-14
• Commonwealth v. Caraballo-Nieves
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2026-02-13
• Berry v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2026-03-12
• S.W. v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2026-05-21

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Brandano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-04-20· cited 87×
• McMenimen v. Passatempo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-08-15· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Jenkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-05-12· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-03· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Wermers
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-05-13· cited 2×