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.

• black, slimy, flattened-out lemon peel was insufficient evidence to permit inference to charge the proprietor with knowledge of and sufficient time to remove substance.
• “The burden of proof that his domicil was changed rested on the defendant because he is the one who asserted that such change had taken place”
• taxpayer alleged change of domicile from Massachusetts to Texas inspired by divine guidance
• burden on taxpayer alleging change of domicil from Massachusetts to Texas

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Texas Supreme Court· 1942-12-16· cited 202×
• Commonwealth v. McInerney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-28· cited 104×
• Rummel v. Peters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-09-13· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Holiday
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1965-04-29· cited 53×
• Graustein v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1936-01-27· cited 51×
• Attorney General v. Trustees of Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-06-03· cited 40×
• Levanosky v. Levanosky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1942-05-29· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1966-06-27· cited 37×
• Topjian v. Boston Casing Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1934-10-23· cited 36×
• Dane v. Board of Registrars of Voters of Concord
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-01-05· cited 35×
• Hannon v. Hayes-Bickford Lunch System, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1957-07-03· cited 26×
• McGaffigan v. Kennedy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1938-12-28· cited 25×
• Kennedy v. Simmons
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1941-02-26· cited 25×
• Slater v. Munroe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-04-01· cited 23×
• Atwood v. Atwood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-05-24· cited 17×
• Conley v. Conley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1949-07-05· cited 17×
• Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-07-13· cited 14×
• Reiersen v. Commissioner of Revenue
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-06-22· cited 9×
• McMahon v. McMahon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-10-28· cited 9×
• Ray
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1943-06-28· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-02-26· cited 129×
• McDonough v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1917-11-27· cited 91×
• Morse v. Woodworth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1892-01-06· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Dow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1914-05-19· cited 50×
• Kennedy v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-06-28· cited 40×
• Tuells v. Flint
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-05-24· cited 40×
• Allen v. Thomas
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1860-10-20· cited 30×
• Feehan v. Tax Commissioner
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1921-01-05· cited 23×
• Olivieri v. Atkinson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-02-26· cited 22×
• McDermott v. Sallaway
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1908-05-20· cited 22×
• Dickinson v. Inhabitants of Brookline
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1902-04-02· cited 20×
• Follett v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1929-05-27· cited 18×
• Brusseau v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1904-11-23· cited 17×
• Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-01-04· cited 17×
• Wright v. City of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1879-01-21· cited 13×
• Pickering v. City of Cambridge
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1887-03-23· cited 12×
• Ness v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1932-05-25· cited 12×
• Cosman v. Donovan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1933-02-23· cited 12×
• Dorr v. Schenck
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1905-03-03· cited 11×
• Tax Collector of Lowell v. Hanchett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1922-03-03· cited 11×