Commonwealth v. Houston

How courts have described this case

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

• “[P]rior sexual conduct may be admissible for the purpose of establishing bias or motive to lie without running afoul of the rape shield statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-06-25· cited 66×
• Commonwealth v. Harris
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-24· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Houston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2000-01-21· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Petrillo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2000-09-20· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Manning
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-08-18· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Joyce
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-01-06· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Maguire
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-12· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-06-15· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Goetzendanner
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-05-20· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Kickery
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1991-12-30· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Vandenhecke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1924-04-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Bucknam
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-05-28· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1990-10-15· cited 7×