Commonwealth v. Hawkesworth

How courts have described this case

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

• “the standard for appellate review of facts in both civil and criminal cases is identical”
• experts’ opinions are not binding on the trier of fact, who may accept or reject them in whole or in part
• reasons for requiring independent fact finding by a judge rather than verbatim adoption of one party’s proposed findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Anthony's Pier Four, Inc. v. HBC ASSOCIATES
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-12-30· cited 681×
• Commonwealth v. Zanetti
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-08-03· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Pope
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-02-08· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Eagles
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-04-04· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Grenier
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-07-07· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. DeMinico
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-08-08· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Matthews
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1990-01-09· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Pugh
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-15· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. O'Brien
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-12-06· cited 23×
• Adoption of Saul
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-03-03· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-08-05· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Viverito
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-03-05· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Spinucci
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-29· cited 11×
• Guardianship of Brandon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-03-13· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-02-05· cited 8×
• Credit Data of Central Massachusetts, Inc. v. TRW, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-10-07· cited 3×
• Bergin v. Galvin
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2000-05-18

Cites

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

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Kent v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-22· cited 2,202×
• United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.
  Supreme Court· 1964-04-06· cited 451×
• United States v. Marine Bancorporation, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 226×
• Commonwealth v. Cinelli
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-16· cited 179×
• Commonwealth v. Matchett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-06-14· cited 157×
• Commonwealth v. Moran
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-11-18· cited 149×
• Commonwealth v. Watkins
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-06-20· cited 126×
• First Pennsylvania Mortgage Trust v. Dorchester Savings Bank
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-08-08· cited 124×
• Markell v. Sidney B. Pfeifer Foundation, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-03-24· cited 100×
• Makino, U.S.A., Inc. v. Metlife Capital Credit Corp.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-01-21· cited 86×
• Lewis v. Emerson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-03-22· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Watson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-23· cited 71×
• Cormier v. Carty
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-08-01· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Richmond
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-01-21· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Costello
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-05· cited 53×
• A Juvenile v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-05-12· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Cadoret
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-02-10· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Pontes
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1988-05-09· cited 26×
• Abbott v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-09-07· cited 20×