Commonwealth v. Cleary

How courts have described this case

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

• victim’s testimony that she had reported circumstances of rape to her mother shortly after assault deemed fresh complaint evidence
• reviewing the foundations of the fresh complaint doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Helfant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-08-13· cited 274×
• Commonwealth v. Sherry
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-01· cited 139×
• Commonwealth v. Bailey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-07· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Montanino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-03-11· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Lavalley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-07-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Hartnett
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-08-28· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Izzo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-03-11· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. LeFave
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-11· cited 41×
• State v. Griffin
  Washington Supreme Court· 1906-09-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Peters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-02-17· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Crowe
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-01-22· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. McGrath
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-11-02· cited 36×
• Glover v. Callahan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-12-27· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-04-03· cited 35×
• COMMONWEALTH v. GUSTAVO GONZALEZ SANTOS.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2021-07-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Edgerly
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-05-21· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Lagacy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-03-06· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Gangi
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-01-02· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-05-29· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Dion
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-03-29· cited 26×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Roosnell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1886-11-22· cited 49×
• State v. Kinney
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1876-09-15· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Bond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-12-08· cited 18×
• Haynes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1877-03-15· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Hackett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1898-01-08· cited 6×