Commonwealth v. Jefferson

How courts have described this case

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

• limiting consideration of materials outside trial record to those reflecting on defendant’s character
• “It is . . . likely that the importance of the supplemental instruction was emphasized by its separateness and by its having been the last instruction given”
• burden on defendant to persuade court that justice requires reduction of verdict
• “no time to deliberate” language in manslaughter instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Lao
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-03-31· cited 133×
• Commonwealth v. Fordham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-02-08· cited 72×
• Commonwealth v. Carlino
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-05-08· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. LeClair
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-04-09· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Walczak
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-12-12· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Squailia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-03-02· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Penn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-09-09· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Akara
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-05-21· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Franklin
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-07-16· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-12-08· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Van Winkle
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-01-07· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Wojcik
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-10-08· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Coyne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1995-04-11· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Haith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2008-10-16· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Ortiz
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-11-26· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Woodward
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 1997-11-10· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-03-05

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tavares
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-01-29· cited 315×
• Commonwealth v. Dascalakis
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1923-06-20· cited 239×
• Commonwealth v. Mahnke
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-10-07· cited 218×
• Commonwealth v. Vanderpool
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1975-05-14· cited 122×
• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1963-05-13· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Gaulden
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-05-06· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-10-03· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Seit
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-19· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Gricus
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1944-12-11· cited 76×
• Commonwealth v. Schnopps
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1981-03-16· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Cox
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1951-07-03· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Devereaux
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1926-11-10· cited 57×
• Scannell v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1911-04-04· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Schnopps
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-01-09· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Harrison
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1961-03-16· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Bearse
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1970-12-30· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. McDermott
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-12-11· cited 26×