Commonwealth v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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

• insufficient evidence for conviction of robbery while “armed with a dangerous weapon,” G. L. c. 265, § 17, where “robber had no instrumentality at all”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Tevlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-01-30· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-03-15· cited 55×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-02-03· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Colantoni
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-02-05· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1989-08-28· cited 30×
• Gray v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-03-31· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Gilbert
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-07-05· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Powell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-02-22· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Garrett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-11-25· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Colon
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-10-04· cited 18×
• King v. MacEachern
  First Circuit· 2011-12-02· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Nicholson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-05-02· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Hastings
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1986-05-29· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. King
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-05-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Foley
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-12-15· cited 14×
• United States v. Tre Tate
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-05-28· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-08-12· cited 9×
• State v. David Loren Curry
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2012-08-01· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Knight
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-09-19· cited 6×

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Latimore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1979-08-07· cited 1,893×
• People v. Aranda
  California Supreme Court· 1965-11-12· cited 665×
• McBoyle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-03-09· cited 514×
• Commonwealth v. Delgado
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-18· cited 188×
• Commonwealth v. Appleby
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-04-01· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Sandler
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-10-09· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-09-12· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Farrell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1948-04-12· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Tarrant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-04-15· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Fiore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-03-25· cited 52×
• People v. Trice
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-07-21· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Henson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-06-16· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Devlin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1974-08-05· cited 33×
• People v. Ratliff
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-09-19· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Kimball
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1947-05-27· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Goldman
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1977-10-06· cited 18×
• Cooper v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1956-12-07· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Perry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-08-02· cited 15×
• Hutton v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1965-02-08· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Federico
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-05-02· cited 14×