Commonwealth v. Donovan

How courts have described this case

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

• “once a trial judge becomes aware of circumstances indicating an irregularity injury deliberations” prior to verdict “judge should inform counsel for both sides, on the record [and] should endeavor to correct the problem”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. FLOYD P.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-07-15· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. DeJesus
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-03-02· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Solis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-05-15· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-10-17· cited 3×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Commonwealth v. Harrington
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-09· cited 175×
• United States v. Preston T. Patterson, United States of America v. Benjamin Demagistris
  First Circuit· 1981-04-15· cited 121×
• Wheaton v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1943-02-25· cited 84×
• United States v. Steven Michael Gay
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-08-08· cited 65×
• United States ex rel. Tobe v. Bensinger
  Seventh Circuit· 1974-02-12· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Marks
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-10-16· cited 10×