Commonwealth v. Franks

How courts have described this case

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

• results of laboratory tests contained in hospital record are admissible even though identity of person performing the test is unknown
• test result revealing presence of sperm in victim admissible by prosecution in rape case
• results of test for presence of sperm on alleged rape victim, containing “only medical facts as of the date of examination,” were admissible under § 79 even though test was performed for purpose of court appearance
• “[o]ur decisions have demonstrated liberal interpretation of [G. L. c. 233, § 79]”
• routine reporting of a commonly performed vaginal smear test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Dargon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-07-29· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Rembiszewski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-03-15· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. DiMonte
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-04-10· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Franks
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-04-08· cited 59×
• People v. Kirtdoll
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1974-04-16· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Concepcion
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-12-01· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Hogg
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-05-09· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Copeland
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-19· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Lannon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-01-08· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Dube
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-11-02· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Pellegrini
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-02-26· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Irene
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-26· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Atencio
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-12-11· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Palacios
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-12-08· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Riley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-09-22· cited 16×
• Doyle v. Dong
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-05-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Ennis
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1974-08-12· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Lopes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1972-09-08· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Sargent
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-08-31· cited 10×
• Diaz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-09-20· cited 8×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dutton v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1970-12-15· cited 1,926×
• Wheeler v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1954-06-07· cited 108×
• Commonwealth v. Millen
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1935-02-14· cited 103×
• Joseph E. Thomas v. Ruth A. Martin Hogan
  Fourth Circuit· 1962-09-12· cited 83×
• Wadsworth v. Boston Gas Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-02-16· cited 65×
• Meunier's Case
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1946-04-09· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Pinnick
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-03-06· cited 50×
• Leonard v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1920-01-09· cited 50×
• Whipple v. Rich
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1902-02-27· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Dawn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1939-02-01· cited 39×
• United States v. Johns-Manville Corporation
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1964-04-16· cited 20×
• Cowan v. McDonnell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1953-04-07· cited 15×
• Cohen v. Boston Edison Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-01-05· cited 10×