Commonwealth v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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

• due process provisions require that prosecutor be disinterested in sense that prosecutor must not be — nor appear to be — influenced in exercise of discretion by personal interests
• “The reimbursement by IFB of an assistant attorney general for his purchase of a computer hard drive and of IFB’s other financial assistance to the division directly related to these indictments are more problematic____”
• “That in the performance of their duties [the Attorney General has] zealously pursued the defendants, as is [his or her] duty within ethical limits, does not make [his or her] involvement improper, in fact or in appearance”
• discussing prosecutor's duty to zealously advocate within ethical limits
• analyzing structure and operation of IFB

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-11-18· cited 186×
• In Re Justices of the Superior Court Department of the Massachusetts Trial Court
  First Circuit· 2000-07-07· cited 165×
• Dutil
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-05-17· cited 62×
• United States v. Pimental
  First Circuit· 2004-08-30· cited 54×
• Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-30· cited 51×
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-13· cited 46×
• Hambarian v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2002-06-12· cited 30×
• People v. Parmar
  California Court of Appeal· 2001-01-30· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Harwood
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-16· cited 17×
• Gillespie v. City of Northampton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-07-14· cited 12×
• Maxwell v. AIG Domestic Claims, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-09-23· cited 10×
• Sylvester v. Commissioner of Revenue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-11-16· cited 8×
• Keesling v. Beegle
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-21· cited 7×
• United States v. Pimental
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-02-20· cited 5×
• United States v. Mazzola
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-11-26· cited 4×
• Shabazz v. Cole
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-08-24· cited 4×
• In Re Grand Jury Proceedings
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-08-07· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1999-08-27· cited 2×
• Carr v. Pearman
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-09-25· cited 1×
• Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2002-05-07· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Ward v. Village of Monroeville
  Supreme Court· 1972-11-14· cited 834×
• Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A.
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 815×
• Marshall v. Jerrico, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-28· cited 658×
• People v. Eubanks
  California Supreme Court· 1996-12-23· cited 167×
• United States v. William W. Lilly
  First Circuit· 1992-12-04· cited 120×
• People v. Zimmer
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-11-25· cited 119×
• Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-05-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Sbordone
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-05-01· cited 109×
• Aime v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-04-05· cited 101×
• Cantrell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-04-26· cited 79×
• Attorney General v. Colleton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-12-28· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Eskridge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-03-19· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Tabor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-12-13· cited 59×
• Sinclair v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-09-14· cited 52×
• Secretary of Administration & Finance v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-03-20· cited 47×
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-05-02· cited 36×
• Manning v. Municipal Court of the Roxbury District
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-04-04· cited 34×
• International Business MacHines Corp. v. Brown
  C.D. California· 1994-07-14· cited 23×
• Trigones v. Attorney General
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-07-26· cited 21×