Massachusetts Appeals Court· 5/26/1977
Commonwealth v. Cote
Citations
- 363 N.E.2d 276
- 5 Mass. App. Ct. 365
- 1977 Mass. App. LEXIS 647
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “It is . . . improper for a judge to . . . direct what inferences the jury should draw from certain evidence”
- in a case where the evidence was not the same against both defendants, the judge said to the jury in the course of his instructions, “[I]t is inconceivable that you could find one of the defendants guilty and one not guilty”
- jury were instructed to find both defendants guilty or both not guilty, but not to find one guilty and one not guilty; the instruction “amounted to a usurpation of the fact-finding function of the jury”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Hale, Goodman, Grant
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28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. BowdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-09· cited 300×
- Commonwealth v. CunneenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-16· cited 174×
- Commonwealth v. McDuffeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-12-13· cited 92×
- Commonwealth v. DrumgoldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-18· cited 62×
- Commonwealth v. SneedMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-18· cited 58×
- Commonwealth v. DiazMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-11-29· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. ReynoldsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-15· cited 36×
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-12-22· cited 30×
- Commonwealth v. NighelliMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-05-28· cited 18×
- Commonwealth v. FosterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-30· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. AveryMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-07-13· cited 15×
- Commonwealth v. HarmonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-05-06· cited 13×
- Commonwealth v. OrtizMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-08-09· cited 12×
- Commonwealth v. MolinaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-07-10· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. WojcikMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-10-08· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. AnslonoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-03-10· cited 10×
- Commonwealth v. ChotainMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-09-05· cited 9×
- Commonwealth v. a JuvenileMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-11-19· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. CoteMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1979-03-08· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. MitchellMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-08-19· cited 6×
Cites
13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.
- Commonwealth v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
- Commonwealth v. FlynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-09-13· cited 111×
- Commonwealth v. NelsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-04-28· cited 62×
- Commonwealth v. MangulaMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1975-01-17· cited 52×
- Commonwealth v. VellucciMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-11-27· cited 52×
- Commonwealth v. MyersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-10-30· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. SheaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-11-07· cited 48×
- Commonwealth v. BaronMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-10-30· cited 40×
- Fisher v. SwartzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1955-11-30· cited 32×
- Commonwealth v. FillippiniMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1973-12-14· cited 27×
- Commonwealth v. BorgesMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1974-09-17· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. PerryMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1975-05-29· cited 14×
- Commonwealth v. NelsonMassachusetts Appeals Court· 1975-02-27· cited 13×
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