Commonwealth v. Fletcher

How courts have described this case

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

• no substantial likelihood of miscarriage of justice from erroneous malice instruction where jury rejected intoxication and insanity defenses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Shea
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2011-07-19· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Jason Estabrook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2025-08-25

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-15· cited 357×
• Commonwealth v. Satterfield
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-21· cited 275×
• Commonwealth v. Mello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-05-17· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Moffett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-03-24· cited 153×
• Commonwealth v. Doucette
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-03-14· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-13· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Fryar
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-06-13· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Grace
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-08-03· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Murphy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-01-07· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Lennon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-16· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Jenks
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-02-03· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Bousquet
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-05· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Squailia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-03-02· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Vinton
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-01· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Plant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-05-06· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Cormier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-05-14· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Weiss
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-06-09· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Nolan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-01· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Hardy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-02-23· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Jiles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-22· cited 15×