Commonwealth v. Goodman

How courts have described this case

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

• “helpfulness to the jury” referred to as one of “the touchstones of the inquiry”
• testimony of fire inspector that fire was deliberately set held admissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Sliech-Brodeur
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2010-07-19· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Pasteur
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-07-24· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Lugo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2005-03-29· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Glyman
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2003-12-15
• Commonwealth v. Corniel
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2005-06-23
• Commonwealth v. Kercado
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2014-06-27

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-23· cited 8,651×
• Commonwealth v. Freeman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1967-06-01· cited 628×
• Commonwealth v. Lanigan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-11-18· cited 289×
• Commonwealth v. Amirault
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-24· cited 178×
• Commonwealth v. Colon-Cruz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-11-13· cited 136×
• Canavan's Case
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-08-17· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Longo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-06-08· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Mavredakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-03-07· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Sands
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-02-03· cited 71×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-21· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-12· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Collado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-02-12· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Tyree
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-08-23· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Blake
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-07-22· cited 20×