Commonwealth v. Francis

How courts have described this case

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

• right to cross-examine “may, in appropriate cases, bow to accommodate other legitimate interests in the criminal trial process”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Grey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1987-03-19· cited 151×
• State v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-24· cited 88×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-04-28· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Best
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-09-05· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Hesketh
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-06· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Drumgold
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-07-18· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-02· cited 57×
• Carter v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1996-10-24· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Gagnon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-07-30· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Borans
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-14· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Perkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-03-20· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Fontanez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-04-16· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Farley
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-30· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Sasville
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-07-23· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Tague
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-10· cited 27×
• State v. Crumm
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1982-12-03· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Colantonio
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-08-29· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. O'MALLEY
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-08-19· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Durham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-14· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. McCollum
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-04-14· cited 17×

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Malloy v. Hogan
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 3,675×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Douglas v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 1,939×
• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• United States v. Nobles
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-23· cited 1,718×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Rogers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-04-16· cited 898×
• Namet v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 498×
• United States v. Emanuel Johnson
  First Circuit· 1973-12-20· cited 176×
• United States v. Ivan Melchor Moreno and Rigoberto Melchor Moreno
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-08-09· cited 120×
• United States v. Thomas E. Reese
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-10-05· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1895-04-06· cited 96×
• United States v. Edwin Pierce
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-08-22· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Michel
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-22· cited 58×
• United States v. LaRiche
  Sixth Circuit· 1977-02-22· cited 57×
• United States v. Elgie Roberts
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-01-13· cited 55×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-12-05· cited 52×