Commonwealth v. Evans

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant previously convicted of assault could not relitigate self-defense in manslaughter trial following death of victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Emich Motors Corp. v. General Motors Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1951-04-09· cited 483×
• Hoag v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 314×
• United States v. Leonard A. Pelullo
  Third Circuit· 1994-03-22· cited 229×
• State v. Ingenito
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1981-07-27· cited 171×
• Commonwealth v. DiStasio
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1937-05-27· cited 63×
• State v. Hoag
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1956-05-14· cited 52×
• Watts v. Watts
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1894-02-26· cited 48×
• Rouse v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1953-06-11· cited 40×
• Morrissey v. Powell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-11-03· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Ellis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1893-11-28· cited 39×
• Jay v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1916-09-07· cited 36×
• State v. Hopkins
  Montana Supreme Court· 1923-10-23· cited 35×
• Wolfe v. Hurley
  W.D. Louisiana· 1930-09-29· cited 29×
• Whittlesey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-13· cited 24×
• Gutierrez v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-04-15· cited 20×
• State v. Latil
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1956-12-10· cited 18×
• State v. Thomas
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1971-04-05· cited 17×
• Southern Title Research Company v. King
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-05-23· cited 16×
• United States v. H. E. Koontz Creamery, Inc.
  D. Maryland· 1964-08-04· cited 16×
• Justice v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1885-12-10· cited 15×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Austin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1867-11-15· cited 6×