Commonwealth v. Cruz

How courts have described this case

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

• evidence of defendant’s mental condition due to intoxication and its effect on his state of mind at relevant time, admissible on issue of intent
• defendant charged with and convicted of murder in first degree; expert testimony concerning effects of defendant’s blood alcohol level at time of alleged offense should not have been excluded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Nichypor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-12-20· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Frank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-12· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Okoro
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-03-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Talbot
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-07-07· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. DelValle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-04-01· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Grissett
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-06-07· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-12-23· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Acosta
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-06-11· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Saulnier
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-12-06· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Stockwell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-10-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Souza
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-05-04· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Ramirez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-05-19· cited 1×