Commonwealth v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• within judge’s discretion to deny motion for mistrial when a prosecution witness, who had begun to give direct testimony, suffered a heart attack and was unable to complete direct testimony or to stand cross-examination, where court promptly struck witness’ testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. Bradshaw
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-12· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. Casale
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-07-17· cited 224×
• Commonwealth v. Toney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-18· cited 186×
• Commonwealth v. Matchett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-14· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Young
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-02-03· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Shelley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-21· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Gaulden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-06· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Sinnott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-05-13· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Repoza
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-12-15· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Medeiros
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-07-09· cited 81×
• Santiago v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-14· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Cameron
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-03-29· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Prater
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-06-15· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Garabedian
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-02-25· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Silva
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-21· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Cory
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-08-18· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Baldwin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-01· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Little
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Reid
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-08-05· cited 58×

Cites

46 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Massiah v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1964-05-18· cited 3,189×
• Kirby v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-07· cited 3,001×
• Brewer v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 2,626×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Blackburn v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1960-01-11· cited 1,191×
• Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1958-06-23· cited 922×
• Ashcraft v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-01· cited 693×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Lindsey v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1937-05-17· cited 556×
• Reck v. Pate
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-12· cited 543×
• Kring v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1883-04-18· cited 472×
• People v. Cunningham
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-01-15· cited 249×
• Hanscom v. Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1914-12-31· cited 185×
• Mallett v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1901-05-20· cited 156×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-06-11· cited 110×