Commonwealth v. Garcia

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding conviction under § 13J where infant had bruises and mother had noticed pain, but her explanations were implausible
• evidence sufficient to show wanton or reckless conduct where child \suffer[ed] injuries of a type that [were] inconsistent with the explanation given by the custodians and not attributable in the circumstances to ordinary accidental causes\ [quotation and citation omitted]

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Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Roderiques
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-04· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Traylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-07-22· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Chapman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-03-15· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-08-03· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-06-25· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Dragotta
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-03-21· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Roderiques
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-01-05· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Cruz
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2015-09-04· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Dragotta
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-02-25· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Traylor
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2014-07-30· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• Commonwealth v. Welansky
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-06-05· cited 283×
• Commonwealth v. Raposo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-21· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Roman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-06-04· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Roman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-11-04· cited 10×