Commonwealth v. Clarke

How courts have described this case

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

• \Whether the defendant's automobile was operated . . . is not to be determined by the distance the vehicle moved\
• movement of car for several feet by mere shifting of gear and without engagement of the engine by the driver amounted to operation; the statute “was passed for the protection of travellers upon highways”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Connolly
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-02-28· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Uski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-03-02· cited 54×
• State v. Mulcahy
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-06-30· cited 50×
• Cook v. Crowell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1930-11-26· cited 35×
• State v. Ridinger
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1954-03-08· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Sudderth
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-09-23· cited 30×
• Blair v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-09-10· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. George
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-14· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Smithson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-10-31· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Belliveau
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-06-01· cited 15×
• State v. Roberts
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1942-12-24· cited 13×
• State v. Jeannette
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1980-01-22· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-05-30· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. McGillivary
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-01-25· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Otmishi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-07-15· cited 8×
• State v. Jones
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1964-05-26· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Cavallaro
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-04-13· cited 5×
• Crofoot v. Rozewski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-10-30· cited 5×
• State v. Nekolite
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2014-07-30· cited 4×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lyseth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1925-01-10· cited 31×
• Labrecque v. Donham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1920-05-20· cited 15×